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No War With China
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Educating & organizing to prevent US/China military conflict. We seek mutually beneficial diplomacy to overcome climate change, pandemics & other shared threats
Sep 10, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🧵We applaud Biden's decision to speak by phone with Chinese president Xi Jinping, but wonder why it took him 7 months since they last spoke. The world's been shaken by many disasters since then-couldn't he find time sooner to speak w/ the head of the world's 2nd largest economy? Evidently Biden is unhappy that Chinese officials been subjecting US diplomats to propaganda barrages. Well, no surprise there: If you're not willing to speak with the man in charge, you can hardly be surprised when they're dismissive to your emissaries.
Sep 9, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
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Thomas Friedman makes some good points about US-China relations - and then gets everything else wrong.

The surest way to spark further economic dislocation, global chaos, & war is to accelerate an arms race with China and deploy more aircraft carriers off their coast! TEXT: New York Times - Opinion - Thomas Friedman - “What C In his column in the New York Times for Sept. 8, noted author @tomfriedman begins with the provocative headline, “What Comes After the War on Terrorism? War on China?”

First what he got right: