Unless China is countered, conflict would be a matter of when, not if- Interview with Carl Thayer, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales, by NW .
China Takes Over Hong Kong: Will It Overtake America?
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Ed Feulner, former president, Heritage Foundation
A great tragedy is unfolding before our eyes. Hong Kong (my favorite destination in Asia) is no longer “one nation, two systems,” as was the agreement with China in 1997. As one friend, who wishes to be anonymous, states, “Political openness of Hong Kong is gone, and we recoil in horror at the consequential prosecutions that have followed.”
Last year, the Chinese-controlled government of Hong Kong secretly passed a new security law that criminalizes any act of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign powers.
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2021 brings a new administration to the White House. For the first time since 2008, the Democratic Party will control both chambers of Congress and the executive branch. Such dramatic realignments are often expected to herald significant changes in U.S. foreign policy.
While the style and rhetoric of U.S. foreign policy will modify with new administrations, its content usually changes far less. With the Biden administration poised to take power, what can we expect from U.S. foreign policy in 2021?
The two most significant legacies of the Trump administration s foreign policy are a sharply confrontational relationship with China and a radically different Middle East. It is unlikely that the incoming administration can or will want to change either policy to any significant degree.
Joe Biden’s Challenge: How to Avoid A U.S.-China War
Unless China can be persuaded to constrain itself and indeed cooperate with the United States, it will be impossible to avoid catastrophic war or preserve a climate in which both can breathe.
THE RISE of China presents the most complex international challenge any American president has ever faced. China is at one and the same time the fiercest rival the United States has ever seen, and also a nation with which the United States will have to find ways to co-exist since the only alternative is to co-destruct. If Xi Jinping’s Party-led autocracy realizes its dream, Beijing will displace Washington from many of the positions of leadership it has become accustomed to during the American Century. Unless China can be persuaded to constrain itself and indeed cooperate with the United States, it will be impossible to avoid catastrophic war or preserve a climate in which both can breathe.