Cricket or baseball? Can these two bat-and-ball sports, and the nations that support them, find a common language and work toward common goals — not just in sport, but in loose alliance? Four countries that are big into cricket and baseball are also working together trying to keep the world safe for democracy.
interview with Michael R. Auslinvia The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin explains how the 2020 election could influence US foreign policy towards Japan and whether the new Japanese Premier Yoshihide Suga has the power to successfully continue former Prime Minister Abe’s legacy.
Americans from across the political spectrum increasingly view Beijing with skepticism and pessimism, particularly among political and business elites. This trend started in the Obama Administration and accelerated under Trump due to actions by China’s leaders.
via Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The German Ambassador to the United Nations issued a statement on behalf of 39 countries denouncing the human rights situation in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, calling on the People’s Republic of China to uphold their basic responsibilities to their own citizens.
by Christoph Heusgen, German Ambassador to the United Nations
The Pew Research Center’s report shows that views of the PRC have grown significantly more negative across nearly all developed economies with a median of 78% across 14 countries saying they have not too much or no confidence that Xi Jinping will do the right thing in world affairs.
First in a Financial Times series on the “New Cold War” between the US and the PRC, Gideon Rachman describes that while many blame this condition on the United States, Beijing’s contribution to this cannot be ignored.
The PRC’s campaign to control international institutions involves concerted efforts to use bribery and economic coercion to make global norms more friendly to authoritarian regimes. The US and other like-minded powers should cooperate to prevent that.
The China challenge has revived an old and often arid quarrel about the relationship in foreign affairs between ideas and interests. Reconsidering that quarrel in light of the ideas that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) professes and the interests the People’s Republic of China (PRC) pursues provides a fresh understanding of the threats that China poses to freedom.
