Soon after taking office, questions began to swirl around President Biden and his team of advisors, about how they might lower the temperature and resume a cordial, constructive relationship with China after the incendiary rhetoric of the Trump era. Now, several months in, the heat might be lower but little else has happened beyond a…
Read MoreThere is a great deal of speculation regarding the new Biden presidency, including whether it will soothe the existing toxic relationship between the US and China. While many credit Trump with “standing up to China” and question whether Biden will do the same, these same pundits doubt the ever-worsening relationship between the two world powers…
Read MoreToday’s Cold War between the US and China is serving little, if any, purpose. Mainly, the goal seems to be to divert US voters’ attention away from the current administration’s mishandling of COVID-19. While, outwardly, the US has rationalized its actions as a response to China’s behavior towards Xinjiang and Hong Kong, within the US…
Read MoreThe U.S. has reached a critical inflection point in its relationship with China, made all the more urgent because of COVID-19. The coronavirus disease and its resulting pandemic is an unfolding story, presenting new challenges each day, yet several lessons have emerged from it already. The first of these is that the vast majority of…
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Instead of containment and conflict, the US and China need to engage constructively, accept intractable differences, and move towards co-leadership on global issues from climate and hunger to nuclear proliferation. We have reached a critical inflection point in our relationship with China, made all the more urgent due to Covid-19. The virus and resulting pandemic…
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The coronavirus is dominating the 2020 global news cycle. What began as a China story is now a global story: the virus has reached over 100 countries, killed over 4000 people, and some experts predict it will affect, though not severely, a significant portion of the global population. Beyond its health implications, the virus is…
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Welcome to my inaugural blog. I invite you to join me on my journey to thoughtfully explore modern US/China relations—a subject of increasing importance for not only both countries but the whole world. My initial interest in China began 40 years ago with a spiritual journey and one question: who died with a smile, and…
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