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Russel: China Feels That It Has the Wind at Its Back The Wall Street Journal has more details about this week s U.S.-China summit in Alaska, reporting that the Chinese negotiators plan to ask their U.S. counterparts to roll back policies implemented by President Donald Trump. Beijing will also propose that the two countries hold regular bilateral meetings and that Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping conduct a virtual summit in April during a global conference on climate change. Daniel Russel said that China is approaching the Alaska summit with a great deal of confidence. China feels that it has the wind at its back, that the East is rising and the West is fading, he said. He added that Beijing will attempt to gain a better understanding of where the Americans are thinking the relationship will go and what might be possible. ....
Foreign Affairs February 5th, 2021 by Kevin Rudd The following is an excerpt of Asia Society President and CEO and Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) President Kevin Rudd s full op-ed originally published in Foreign Affairs. Officials in Washington and Beijing don’t agree on much these days, but there is one thing on which they see eye to eye: the contest between their two countries will enter a decisive phase in the 2020s. This will be the decade of living dangerously. No matter what strategies the two sides pursue or what events unfold, the tension between the United States and China will grow, and competition will intensify; it is inevitable. War, however, is not. It remains possible for the two countries to put in place guardrails that would prevent a catastrophe: a joint framework for what I call “managed strategic competition” would reduce the risk of competition escalating into open conflict. ....
NEW YORK, January 28, 2021 Asia Society President and CEO and Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) President Kevin Rudd issued the following statement in response to the University of Pennsylvania’s annual ranking of think tanks: “I’m delighted that in just five short years since its founding, the Asia Society Policy Institute has become one of the leading think tanks in the U.S. and the world. Out of 2,200 American think tanks, Asia Society s Policy Institute has now risen for the first time into the top 30. We’re now number 29. Just as importantly, out of over 11,000 think tanks worldwide, we have now been ranked for the first time in the top 1 percent. ....