EA on China Radio International: Is US-Chinese Confrontation Inevitable?
Posted by Scott Lucas | Apr 4, 2021 |
Biden Administration and Chinese Government delegations in talks in Anchorage, Alaska, March 18, 2021 (Frederic J. Brown/AP)
I joined a panel on China Radio International on Friday to discuss the future of relations between the US, China, and other countries in Europe and Asia.
The State-owned CRI framed the discussion with the provocative and, I think, misleading description “Biden is Building Anti-China Alliance”. However, the four panellists took the discussion in more productive areas concerning diplomacy, economics, military positions, and human rights.
By the end of the discussion, the two Chinese panellists Prof. Zha Daojiong of Peking University and Prof. Xia Yafeng of Long Island University were not only recognizing issues inside as well as outside China, but were calling on the Chinese leadership to reform its approach towards diplomacy.
President-elect Joe Biden has spoken with soaring language about the worldâs need for American leadership. He has pledged to convene a summit of democracies. And he speaks of a return to a more robust promotion of human and political rights.
And that has given some U.S. foreign-policy ârealists,â who want to avoid a return to the disastrous interventions of the past two decades, plenty to fret about. Some cite a sense of foreboding when they hear Antony Blinken, the secretary-of-state-designate, saying that, âIn Syria, we rightly sought to avoid another Iraq by not doing too much, but we made the opposite error of doing too little.â
By Mark Anderson
CHICAGO, Ill. The results of a survey called “What Americans Think About America First” were released Oct. 20 by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA), purporting to show that halfway into President Donald Trump’s first year in office, only his core supporters are clinging to his professed “America first” outlook and associated policies. Meanwhile, the survey suggests, overall, that establishment Republicans and Democrats, as well as many independents, are heading a different direction by largely eschewing Trumpian nationalism instead embracing the international “rules-based world order” that this Windy City think tank champions nonstop.
In a sense, the results could hardly be otherwise. The CCGA, like its elite cousins, including the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) of New York, Chatham House in the UK and the Brookings Institution in Washington, need a strong sense of public validation as they advance their trans-nationalist, monopoly-capit
their behavior. michael desch, thank you so much for joining us. great to be here, eric. eric: stay with fox news channel for complete coverage of the president s summit. tomorrow chris wallace will be anchoring a special edition of fox news sunday live from helsinki, finland at 2 pm and 7 pm eastern. right here on fox news channel. then on monday, he has got that is at a summit when chris sits with vladimir putin? it is an interview. he was at one on one with vladimir putin to get reaction of the meeting.and chris wallace will ask vladimir putin about election interference. can t wait until we hear more about that! eric: definitely tuna for that. meanwhile, new tensions in the middle east as deadly protest along the israel and gaza border exploded in an exchange from rocket fire. plus, the former fbi lawyer, lisa paige answering questions behind closed doors on capitol hill just one day after the