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"When it comes to the global order or the global governance system, Xi and many other Chinese officials have made it clear that China’s ambition is to make the current system more authoritarian so that China will face less political risk by being integrated with that system."
More excellent China analysis from @Melanie_Hart here. warontherocks.com/2019/04/jaw-ja…
The Communist Party feels "that if any small movement were to get started, that trying to crack down against it could be a regime-ending situation." "They have no faith that the smallest spark could be managed, so no spark can be allowed to occur."
"because for too long, many U.S. leaders have always been too nervous about causing their Chinese counterparts to lose face, when I think China is forcing us to lose face all the time, so we should maybe not worry about that so much"
"The first very big stumble (of the Trump administration) is that they are alienating the rest of the world instead of working together with everyone else. On all of our complaints about China, they are not U.S. complaints, they are U.S. and allies’ complaints."
"The other big criticism I have for the way the Trump administration is handling the China challenge is they are trying to counter everything that China’s doing, instead of doing good things ourselves."
