The increase in hate crimes against Asians coincided with a rise in geopolitical tensions, which historically manifested in deteriorating US-Japan relations and is repeating itself amid current US-China tensions, said participants in a panel discussion on Wednesday.
Two recent documents as well as the critiques they have elicited furnish the basis for a more nuanced debate on U.S. policy towards China. First, on July 4, a group of roughly 100 figures from the policy, military, business, and academic communities published an open letter arguing that “there is no single Washington consensus endorsing an overall adversarial stance toward
Over the past year, Donald Trump has vowed to “utterly destroy” ISIS, considered lifting sanctions on Russia, promised to cancel the Paris climate agreement and “dismantle” the Iran nuclear deal. But many of his most inflammatory statements are directed at China. He has promised to label China as a “currency manipulator,” suggested he will dispense with the “one China policy,”
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