Euro tour notes for Biden: ‘listen’ on China, don’t ‘tell’
The president is bringing good — and bad — ideas for drawing partners into his East Asia policy in his suitcase. Will the right ones prevail?
The president is bringing good — and bad — ideas for drawing partners into his East Asia policy in his suitcase. Will the right ones prevail?
To avoid conflict, credible deterrence must be paired with reassurance that the US won’t push for Taipei’s independence.
The secretary of state dismissed an idea from Rep. Ted Lieu that we should help “allies first,” and took a jab at China.
A narrower diplomatic protest may be appropriate, but it’s not likely to compel real policy changes in Beijing.
Aside from the contradictions and hypocrisies, it’s not worth alienating Russia and China, with whom the US must cooperate.
To hold its own with China, the United States must renew its competitive capacity and build a demonstrably better governed society.
It’s possible to imagine a future where nations fight over the earth’s critical minerals, just as they once fought over oil. Or maybe not.
A new cold war atmosphere will allow the Pentagon to hoard resources that would otherwise go to our greater public health and safety needs.
The Strategic Competition Act purports to oppose anti-Asian racism but its provisions would actually contribute to it.
Beijing downplays the US-led initiative but reacts sharply to its possible expansion.
But it shouldn’t be. Not all alliances should be treated the same, but China threat inflation drives the conversation that way anyway.
Their objections to budget cuts have nothing really to do with who is best positioned to fight, but losing out on the spoils.
The Strategic Competition Act making its way through the senate falsely paints the BRI as a nefarious economic tool meant to bludgeon American primacy.
It’s a craze sweeping the nation’s capital and beyond: We need to do x, y, or z or succumb to the threat.
The Senate bill would turn all the positive things about Washington-Beijing competition, and cooperation, on its head.
Tucked into this 400-page document is a recipe for keeping ‘maximum pressure’ on Kim Jong Un and a 70-year war going.
The second installment in our series exploring Senate measures that could set the US on a course of cold war with China.
The first in a series about a Senate bill enshrining a zero-sum approach to Beijing that will surely set us on a course of escalation.
The 60 Minutes anchor repeatedly tried to bait the secretary of state into taking a more militaristic approach.
Beltway policymakers are routinely threatening war with Beijing without seriously considering the possibility of losing.
America’s most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely to be fixed by Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan.