Important read from Chinese scholar Yuan Peng of CICIR: "The world during and after the pandemic is like the world after WWI..But just like Britain in the post-WWI period, the [U.S.] still has enough power to prevent other countries from taking her place." readingthechinadream.com/yuan-peng-coro…
"America’s China policy will only get increasingly hyper-sensitive, unyielding, and arrogant as they double down on containment and suppression. Strategic competition between China and the US will become all the more fierce."
"The impact of China, the United States and Russia on international politics will be enhanced, and their interactions will be crucial to reshaping the future order. The strategic autonomy of Europe, Japan, and India may be somewhat strengthened in these new circumstances."
"Sino-US antagonism will not evolve into a Cold War-like bipolar opposition"
1. "China and America’s interests are deeply interwoven."
2. U.S. alliance system no longer what it was
3. China-Russia ties are "basically solid"
4. "Japan and India...want to remain on the fence"
1. "China and America’s interests are deeply interwoven."
2. U.S. alliance system no longer what it was
3. China-Russia ties are "basically solid"
4. "Japan and India...want to remain on the fence"
"A more likely scenario is that America will step up efforts to build a club from which China is excluded...China will then turn its hand to [OBOR]...The basic difference between this scenario and...the Cold War is that there is no way for China and the US to completely decouple"
"Fissures between [the U.S. and Europe] will widen further. Sino-Japanese relations have gradually eased, and Sino-Indian relations are stable with wrinkles of concern. America has destroyed its image, and the world does not count on its continuing leadership."
"China has performed well...yet the risk of being besieged and hounded for reparations is considerable. Especially urgent is that certain countries in Africa and Latin America are angry because of the pandemic and have adopted a very arrogant attitude [!!!] toward China."
"China’s and South Korea’s...display of the uniqueness and relative superiority of East Asian culture, values, collective spirit, and model of social governance highlighted the rise of Asia-Pacific in a sense that...suggests the revival of Asian civilization."
"That Pompeo, Navarro, Bannon, Gingrich and other American anti-China figures are all sounding off is precisely due to the profound challenge that the Chinese system poses to the American system."
China's success "should stimulate the West to review the state of their systems. Yet given the limitations imposed... by popular will and electoral politics [and] the absolute priority accorded to what they call freedom and human rights, this review may well prove...difficult."
"The United States is not looking at China’s relations with the world from a progressive historical perspective, but instead is scrutinizing Chinese intentions through a lens of strategic caution, and using high-pressure tactics to carry out blockage and containment." END
