Flags of U.S. and China are displayed at American International Chamber of Commerce (AICC)’s booth during China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing, China, May 28, 2019.
Jason Lee, Reuters
* “The Longer Telegram” released in late January laid out a detailed proposal for how the new U.S. administration should deal with a rising China under its Communist Party government.
* The anonymous author is a “former senior U.S. government official,” according to the D.C.-based think tank Atlantic Council that published the lengthy paper.
* So far in Beijing, major Chinese state media have not discussed the paper much, while the foreign ministry said such comments against the ruling Communist Party were “a collection of rumors and conspiracy theories”
BEIJING — A recent U.S. strategy paper on China that’s widely read in Washington, D.C., has drawn only a passing response in Beijing where limited public discussion has focused on one point: The author got China wrong.
“The Longer Telegram” released in late January proposed how the new U.S. administration should deal with a rising China by laying out a detailed critique of the Communist Party government under President Xi Jinping.
An effective U.S. approach on China requires the “same disciplined approach it applied to the defeat of the Soviet Union,” the paper said. “US strategy must remain laser focused on Xi, his inner circle, and the Chinese political context in which they rule.”
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WNU Editor: The D.C.-based think tank Atlantic Council's strategy paper on China is here .... Toward a new American China strategy (Atlantic Council). This is a must read for all China watchers.
2 comments:
Why should China be impressed?
China Joe and entourage are back up to their old tricks. They are paying Iran ransom and other monies. It took Bendover Biden 31 to 33 days to grab his ankles? That was fast. Is is very spry for old guy.
American nat sec establishment are compromised, stupid, ideologically blinkered or incompetent. Hopefypully their Chinese counterparts are worse.
Our only hope.
XiBiden being a tottering old fool is counter productive as well.
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