I've had a number of conversations with US government civil servants recently who deal with China issues. I should emphasize these are not political but career people, work in very different areas topically and geographically. Also, I generally can't tell you their political 1/n
Leanings. Only one I've really talked politics with is not a Trumpet. Only point of commonality is each do work that deals with China in different ways. Couple points. 1. They are invigorated. General sense that so much of what is happening now or what they are being allowed 2/n
To do is simply getting caught up for decades of inaction. They are getting support to tackle problems everyone had known about but were never pursued before. 2. They feel the criticism of the policies. As one told me (the not a Trump fan), if you want to not like Trump 3/n
Fine, but most of the criticism is just Trump rage that doesn't care about the policy or how to address the challenges we face. These problems have been ignored for decades. 3. There is more good stuff to come. Big projects. Big work. Passionate people from many different 4/n
Backgrounds working in different issues doing work that is amazing for me to hear about. There are lots of great people doing great work here. Current work is nothing more than timing in all the late homework. It's gonna be fun.
