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Bruno Maçães
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The American response to the Belt and Road is all wrong and in some cases as the recent NSC tweet even puerile. But don’t blame Trump. The fault is with those seasoned State diplomats - so seasoned that they struggle to find their bearings in a radically new world
Here is a text where I started to explore what the response should be
scmp.com/comment/insigh…
In one sentence: very well you don’t want China to lead the future, that’s fine - but accept that there is a future world, that things change, that old distinctions collapse, that Asia is not a retrograde mass of ignorance. Embrace the future or perish
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It’s remarkable how the language in new EU strategy on China was copy pasted from German BDI
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One of the reasons I am disappointed with the smug reaction to Brexit from the continent is that we all know no country in Europe would be able to take in a big question like Brexit and address it
Now the answer to this in the continent is: precisely! We are not capable so we raise no big questions. The error of Brexit is to raise a big question when there was no need for that. We can live without raising big questions
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Maybe a good day for us in Europe to reexamine one of our greatest moral failings: Islamophobia. It cuts aross the political spectrum and sometimes comes from the most unexpected corners
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