.@FareedZakaria is right and wise here. Past US complacency about China is now veering to a policy of confrontation that is a) excessively militarized and b) even more frightening to partners and allies than China's own bad actions.
https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1343452093110243328
@FareedZakaria Yes, stand up for human rights in China and Hong Kong.
Yes, challenge China's bad trade practices.
Yes, apply multilateral pressure to constrain China's environmental abuses.
But do all this while always extending the open hand of cooperation to China ...
Yes, challenge China's bad trade practices.
Yes, apply multilateral pressure to constrain China's environmental abuses.
But do all this while always extending the open hand of cooperation to China ...
@FareedZakaria ... because the present path leads toward conflicts as terrible as they are preventable.
@FareedZakaria When George W. Bush took office, the US economy was probably 8x China's. At Barack Obama inauguration, US economy was about 3x China. Today, US and China are near peers. China is too big to bully - especially by a US now isolated from its own allies by Trump-presidency chauvinism
@FareedZakaria Anyway, read and reflect. foreignaffairs.com/articles/china…
PS There's a section in "Trumpocalypse" about how a carbon tax can be built into a NAFTA-EU-UK-Japan-etc. joint carbon tariff upon China, to constrain China to reduce climate-changing emissions.
Pressure can work, but only when alliance-wide and directed at achievable goals
Pressure can work, but only when alliance-wide and directed at achievable goals
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