Media fail to identify xenophobia as Biden says Trump ‘rolled over for Chinese’
Joe Biden and some of his supporting super PACs are choosing to adopt, rather than challenge, the anti-China premise of the Trump campaign’s attacks.
Joe Biden and some of his supporting super PACs are choosing to adopt, rather than challenge, the anti-China premise of the Trump campaign’s attacks.
The military-industrial-complex needs an enemy … and your tax dollars.
Will China continue its economic rise? And will all U.S. leaders finally realize that climate change is truly an existential challenge?
Military, diplomatic, historical, and environmental imperatives dictate that the U.S. disengage militarily from the volatile Taiwan issue. Washington should instead focus on facilitating a compromise.
Biden will lose the argument on China if he tries to run to Trump’s right.
In the absence of a coherent response from the United States, the pandemic has paved the way for China to bolster its ambitions and validate its political values.
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, Trump has gone from praising China one minute, to attacking China the next. That back and forth happens to mirror the views of some of his wealthiest supporters.
The United States and China have a golden opportunity to bridge their divide and fight a common enemy, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trade has plummeted, Chinese goods are disappearing from markets, and exports of China’s favorite Central Asian commodity – natural gas – have nosedived.
China has internal debates about strategy and policy, and U.S. officials must recognize this in order to enable more moderate perspectives.
A series of critical blunders over the last few decades have exposed many of the U.S.’s weaknesses.
Restarting diplomacy with North Korea not only reduces the threat of war, but it can also help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
China has been directing aid to Middle Eastern governments to combat COVID-19, but China’s murky past in relations with the Arab World doesn’t mean its image will improve.
More than 1,000 acts of racism against Asian Americans have been reported since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.
Some have written Trump’s political obituary with the fallout from the coronavirus, but in our post-truth era, his xenophobia and nationalism may end up helping his reelection chances.
Fostering good governance means fighting the xenophobia and crude nationalism that so often poison the political climate that is conducive to it.
The only viable way of managing the crisis is not a shrinking of the public space in favor of the state, but a widening of the public space in partnership with the state in order to meet the challenge.
Multilateralism provides the connective tissue that knits countries together precisely when they are most likely to go their own way.
The Spanish flu helped herald the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. A century later, could the coronavirus do the same?
A power sharing agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government is going to be extremely difficult and the available evidence indicates that the violence and tension will not end any time soon.
The Trump administration should extend New START and engage China on a parallel track regarding strategic stability and risk reduction measures.