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Re: China and United States Relations
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 9, 2020, 2:29 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-might-start-fixing-033256065.html
[quote]This Is How Joe Biden Might Start Fixing America's
Relationship With China
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1. The U.S. and China need to start talking
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Cordiality is sorely needed. Communication channels between U.S.
and Chinese officials are currently “zippo,” according to one
top U.S. diplomat, while China’s ambassador to the U.S., Cui
Tiankai, has been completely frozen out of discussions with even
junior Trump administration officials.
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An early first summit between Biden and Xi will help set the
tone for relations. Biden’s easiest win may simply be the fact
that he is not his predecessor. “Trump is fundamentally a person
without decency, and you cannot have a friend without decency,”
says Gao. “Biden is a person with decency—that’s very, very
important.”
2. Calling a truce in the U.S.-China trade war
Trump focused on reducing America’s $345.6 billon trade deficit
with China, but it actually grew during his tenure. It also
provided an excuse for Xi—a self-proclaimed (albeit reluctant)
free-market globalist—to chart a more domestic course.
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A Biden administration can help torpedo these arguments by
returning to rules-based, free-market trade relations. There are
inklings of hope, even in areas that have long been a sticking
point between China and its trading partners—such as access for
foreign firms to the domestic market.
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3. Building U.S.-China Cooperation
The space for collaboration between the U.S. and China shrank
precipitously over Trump’s tenure. The most obvious area for
Biden to look for common ground would be climate change, which
Trump lambasted as a “hoax,” withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris
Climate Accords and stripping back regulation on polluting
industries.
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There are also opportunities to build consensus on issues like
coronavirus vaccine development, education, cultural ties,
nuclear proliferation, trade and investment. Despite the
pandemic and the specter of economic decoupling, Chinese firms
are also heading for a record number of IPOs in the U.S. this
year. Given the turmoil roiling the U.S., picking more fights
with Beijing is unlikely to feature high on Biden agenda.
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4. Reducing tensions
The Trump administration’s ideological beef with China was
spelled out by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who challenged
the legitimacy of the CCP and called for regime change. In this
light, every aspect of bilateral relations came under attack,
including visas for Chinese students, seemingly innocuous social
media platforms like TikTok, and the sale of U.S. tech
components to Chinese firms.
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“Ultimately, I think we are going to see a more sophisticated
approach to competing with China that doesn’t say everything’s
black and white,” says Bisley. “But high-tech competition and
the risks of two Internets, will continue to be a
challenge.”[/quote]
The above is just common sense. Now here is where it goes wrong:
[quote]5. Strengthening U.S. alliances in Asia-Pacific
Ganging up on China might not seem like a great way to mend
ties, given that Beijing has traditionally preferred dealing
with individual states instead of multinational groupings like
the European Union. But Biden was key to the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP)—a sprawling trade pact including the U.S. and
11 other countries from Asia and the Americas.
It was designed to coax better trade practices out of China, but
Trump nixed the pact on his first full day in office. The
remaining 11 members eventually moved forward with a modified
agreement while freezing 22 provisions insisted upon by
Washington, including protections for U.S. workers. Whether
Biden would be willing to rejoin TPP is an open question—his
“Buy American” policy might preclude membership, while existing
members may be reluctant to renegotiate terms with Washington.
But it’s the kind of consensus-based approach that gives Beijing
a migraine.[/quote]
I would say that the best approach is a new version of the TPP
that includes China. How can anything intellectually honestly
call itself a Trans-Pacific Partnership without including the
largest economy on one side of the Pacific? On the other hand,
an authentic TPP (with the US and China as the central members)
would be a game-changer for the smaller countries by, instead of
forcing a choice of US vs China, making it into choice of both
vs neither. Under the latter choice, it is almost certain that
they will go with both, thus achieving a grand partnership.
From there, we can exert pressure of Russia from a position of
unprecedented geopolitical strength.
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 12, 2020, 11:31 am
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China's threat to US is 'exaggerated,' historian Niall Ferguson
says
[quote]Historian Niall Ferguson, senior fellow of the Hoover
Institution, Stanford, discusses the rivalry between the United
States and China and the outlook for American foreign policy
under President-elect Joe Biden from the UBS Virtual European
Conference.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUuKtL53co4
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 12, 2020, 11:44 pm
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Trump Bans Investment in Firms Controlled by China’s Military
[quote]President Donald Trump signed an order banning U.S.
investment in Chinese firms determined to be owned or controlled
by the country’s military. This is the latest bid by the White
House to ramp up pressure on Beijing. Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie
reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6AGGrBYSg
Reminder:
[quote]Pres. Trump maintains a bank account in China that he has
never publicly disclosed, according to tax documents obtained by
The New York Times. Trump's account in China has remained a
secret because it is held under a corporate name, Trump
International Hotels Management. In 2017, that company 'reported
an unusually large spike in revenue — some $17.5 million, more
than the previous five years’ combined,' The Times reported. 'It
was accompanied by a $15.1 million withdrawal by Mr. Trump from
the company’s capital account.' Trump has repeatedly assailed
Joe Biden as 'soft on China.' Tax records show Trump paid
$188,561 in taxes in China through his company from 2013 to
2015, vastly more than the $750 he paid in federal U.S. income
taxes in 2016 and 2017. A lawyer for the Trump Organization
would not disclose the bank where the president maintains his
account.[/quote]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 14, 2020, 8:24 pm
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How are media twisting China's five-year plan?
[quote]This week, CGTN is looking at media coverage on proposals
for China's 14th Five-Year Plan, which were revealed last month.
Do the media make the key points clear or are they spinning the
facts into something to fear?[/quote]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 15, 2020, 2:12 pm
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Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, without the United States
[quote]The world's biggest free-trade bloc came into existence
with 15 Asia-Pacific economies forming the China-backed Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership at a virtual summit. [/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ntf_5ORrp4
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 15, 2020, 11:45 pm
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RCEP Is Shot Across the Bow for U.S.: Arnold & Porter’s Reade
[quote]Claire Reade, senior counsel at Arnold & Porter,
discusses the importance of the Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership deal, or RCEP, deal and the timing of the agreement.
She speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”[/quote]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 18, 2020, 12:28 pm
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Why is Asia-Pacific's new trade deal so important? | Inside
Story
[quote]A third of the global economy comes under the new
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or R-Cep. China,
ten southeast asian nations along with South Korea, Japan,
Australia and New Zealand have signed the free-trade agreement.
But the U.S. is excluded, leaving Beijing as the dominant
economy in the bloc. So, will this deal help the region's
economy?[/quote]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 19, 2020, 11:18 am
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U.S. only had 16 years not at war over its 240-plus years of
history: Chinese Foreign Ministry
[quote]U.S. Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite called Tuesday
for the navy to establish a new fleet at the intersection of the
Indian and Pacific Oceans. He said the U.S. 7th Fleet alone,
which is forward-deployed in Japan, is not enough to deal with
China's military ambitions. Chinese Foreign Ministry responded
to Braithwaite's remarks on Thursday, urging the U.S. to discard
the outdated Cold War and zero-sum game mindset.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRGI8Ct_s4Y
[quote]
Colin T
1 hour ago
America was founded on militarism. It can no more change than a
leopard can change its spots.[/quote]
It should be pointed out that military preparedness does not
necessarily equate to war. The U.S. believing itself to be the
"exceptional" nation of the world has led it to war more times
than militarism alone. It should also be clear by now to any
rational U.S. citizen that the U.S. is far from being an
exceptional nation. The Trump presidency and the U.S.' response
to a pandemic are obvious indicators of this fact, as is it's
crumbling infrastructure, terrible public transportation system,
and terrible medical system are others.
[quote]American exceptionalism
American exceptionalism is a view of the United States of
America that the country sees its history as inherently
different from that of other nations,[2] stemming from its
emergence from the American Revolution, becoming what the
political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called "the first new
nation"[3] and developing a uniquely American ideology,
"Americanism", based on liberty, equality before the law,
individual responsibility, republicanism, representative
democracy, and laissez-faire economics. This ideology itself is
often referred to as "American exceptionalism."[4] Second is the
idea that America has a unique mission to transform the
world[according to whom?]. President Abraham Lincoln stated in
the Gettysburg address (1863) during the American Civil War, in
reference to the preservation of the United States itself,
Americans have a duty to ensure, "government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Third is the sense that America's history and its mission give
it a superiority over other nations.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
We know who else sees themselves as exceptional people too don't
we?
HTML https://authenticnationalsocialismmemes.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/mythofgoodjew.jpg
We also know which people believe it their mission to spread
democracy to the "gentile" world:
HTML https://authenticnationalsocialismmemes.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/jew_democracy.jpg
Is it any surprise then that Israel would be the U.S.' number
one ally in the middle-east?
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 19, 2020, 11:22 am
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Behind Trump's latest executive order targeting Chinese firms
[quote]U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order
banning U.S. companies from investing in Chinese firms with
alleged ties to the PLA. Why has he made this move?[/quote]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest5 Date: November 27, 2020, 12:59 pm
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Why the RCEP Trade Agreement is Significant for U.S.-China
Relations
[quote]Why is the recent signing of the RCEP trade agreement
significant for U.S.-China relations? Professor Huang Yiping
(Peking University) and investment strategist Andy Rothman
(Matthews Asia) explain at our CHINA Town Hall 2020: Economics &
Trade event.[/quote]
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