The U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor, Matthew Pottinger, gives a speech on the role that reciprocity and candor play in the American approach to the PRC.
BEIJING — (AP) — Chinese leaders hope Washington will tone down conflicts over trade, technology and security if Joe Biden wins the Nov. 3 presidential election. But any shift is likely to be in style, not substance, as frustration with Beijing increases across the American political spectrum.
Serena Ng of the WSJ details how, triple-A corporate bond ratings inside the PRC have risen from 37.5% of the total in 2015 to 57% today… while in the United States and other countries, triple-A ratings are rare and represent only the best debt issuers.
In this Foreign Affairs article, the U.S. National Security Advisor describes how the United States has shone a “spotlight of transparency on the CCP” and encourages others not to ignore the ideology that animates the Party.
Quote from the Canadian Parliament’s Subcommittee statement: “Based on the evidence put forward during the Subcommittee hearings, both in 2018 and 2020, the Subcommittee is persuaded that the actions of the Chinese Communist Party constitute genocide as laid out in the Genocide Convention.”
As “Xi Thought” nears elevation alongside “Mao Zedong Thought” in the pantheon of the CCP’s Marxist-Leninist ideology, companies and other elements of society jockey to shape their decisions and actions to match the Leader’s slogans.
Two prominent China analysts debated on Tuesday whether Beijing is attempting to supplant Washington as the foremost global power. Speaking during a South China Morning Post webinar about the state of multilateralism under US President Donald Trump, Elizabeth Economy, a senior fellow with Stanford University‘s Hoover Institution, countered an assertion by David Firestein that Beijing was primarily seeking “a place at the table that is commensurate with its heft”.
Hoover Institution fellow H. R. McMaster discusses China and notes the winner of the presidential election next month will need to elicit the help of the international community in order to rein in a more ambitious and aggressive China.
