People like Ikenberry & Deudney have always been quite "tolerant" of "lesser evils" like the killing of 500k+ people in Indonesia, or 200k+ mostly Mayan peoples in the Guatemalan civil war, or of the South African Apartheid regime, or... https://t.co/79nSaVjD7ahttps://t.co/OlL2d881uE
If Biden wants to bring about a democratic revival — to lead, as he constantly (and rightly) says, by the “power of our example” — he should focus on getting America’s own house in order. Until then, less preaching and a little humility are called for
China lays down “four stops” for visiting Dep Sec of State Wendy Sherman
2/ The authors should know this, because Ikenberry eloquently denounced such behaviour throughout the presidency of George W. Bush, an era of disaster routinely sanitised in such discourse.
Biden referred to both Russia and China as "possibly mortal competitors down the road."
the U.S. president said that Chinese President Xi Jinping "is deadly earnest about becoming the most powerful military force in the world, as well as the largest and most prominent economy in the world" by the mid-2040s.
Geopolitical tensions and anti-foreign feelings have been rising among a wide range of countries, and for a variety of reasons
It will be especially difficult for Beijing to resolve its tensions with other countries – India, Japan, Australia, Europe, the UK, Brazil, the Philippines, and others – as long as it continues to insist that these tensions can only be blamed on actions by Washington
“We believe our relationship can tolerate that nuance.”
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They included human rights, quickly narrowing political freedoms in Hong Kong and what Ms. Sherman called “the horrifying actions taking place in Xinjiang,”
Ms. Sherman also raised China’s demands over Taiwan, its military operations in the South China Sea, and the accusations last week by the United States and other nations that China’s Ministry of State Security was behind the hacking
“We were quite direct with each other on the areas of great difference,” she said.
While Mr. Biden has largely avoided the heated ideological sparring with the Chinese Communist Party that the Trump administration pursued in its final year,
“There are some things that rise above specific differences that are the global responsibility of great powers,” Ms. Sherman told the Associated Press in an interview after the meeting in Tianjin concluded.
I’m old enough to remember the Obama admin’s refusal to use Beijing’s “new type of great power relationship” 新型大国关系 language because it implied acknowledgment of peer status. Eric Hundman | 何諳銳
“Despite our different views over the Hong Kong or the Uyghur cases, what Trump called the economic decoupling with China is something beyond our intentions and is contrary to our interests,” said Borrell
In Stinging Rebuke, China Tells U.S. Diplomat That Its Rise Can’t Be Stopped, likely true, but the question of why the US should continue to help its rise is now mainstream and likely to be answered in a bipartisan way "we should not"
and next and stuck-at-home U.S. consumers still shopping and importing in record amounts.
U.S. companies purchasing goods they can’t get elsewhere to meet elevated household demand fueled in part by trillions of dollars in government stimulus.
“We’ve seen the strong consumer demand that’s been occurring throughout the pandemic, and we’ve seen the import levels just go through the roof,”
The Biden administration adopted “ally-shoring” and spun it into “friend-shoring” in a 250-page report released this month titled Building Resilient Supply Chains, Revitalizing American Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-Based Growth.
Amid a historic crackdown on China’s tech sector, companies are also working to eliminate 996 work culture and answer Beijing’s call to boost employment?
It’s a trend that’s not restricted to Israel. In the United States and the United Kingdom, COVID-19 has “become a disease of the unvaccinated, who are predominantly young”, says Joshua Goldstein, a demographer at the University of California, Berkeley.