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As China shuts down Russian border to stop influx of #COVID2019 cases, tune in to @CarnegieRussia English podcast to understand how growing Chinese clout is viewed in the Russian Far East. I discuss it with Ivan Zuenko, Vladivostok's Sinologist-in-chief carnegie.ru/commentary/815…
This episode is also part of #AsiaLocalGlobal initiative that my @CarnegieEndow colleague @EvanFeigenbaum has launched to look at Asia beyond familiar viewpoints from various national capitals
And in case you've missed this elegant piece by Ivan Zuenko looking at the actual level of Chinese economic penetration in the Russian Far East, it's high time to read it carnegie.ru/commentary/812…
1: A long thread from me on US-China relations and local realities. This terrific and timely @nytimes article on Chinese investment in the US captures something crucial. For years, trade was contentious, investment less so. But that has changed utterly. nyti.ms/2JHLpar
2: Trade was contentious because it fueled an intuitive sense among some Americans that US-China interaction had become unbalanced. You can hear this in much of President Trump's rhetoric about unfair trade at his rallies. He also deployed it to effect in his run for President.
3: But investment *used* to be less contentious because it could mean jobs in the US, not China, jobs for Americans, not for Chinese. Put bluntly, it appeared to be a vote of confidence in America and in the US economy. Invest here, some said, and you "pay America a compliment."
