by jpitney | May 26, 2023 | China, Claremont McKenna College, Trade
Filip De Mott at Insider: China and the US are both putting national security above the economy, Minxin Pei wrote in Bloomberg. But China’s economy will suffer more, thwarting Beijing’s effort to catch up to the US, he said. “One of them has to be...
by jpitney | May 15, 2023 | China, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine
Josh Ro=gin at WP: “Ukraine’s survival is Taiwan’s survival. Ukraine’s success is Taiwan’s success,” Taiwan’s representative in Washington, Bi-khim Hsiao, told the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum last weekend. “Our futures are closely linked.” … Hsiao said...
by jpitney | Apr 11, 2023 | China, Dreier, Trade, Uncategorized
Ten years ago today, David Dreier wrote in The Wall Street Journal: The last quarter-century brought the fastest and most profound geopolitical change and economic growth the world has seen. It’s time to go even bigger. Just five years after the 2008 global...
by jpitney | Mar 5, 2023 | Bipartisanship, China, Congress, Foreign Policy, House of Representatives
Dana Milbank at WP: Ask Mike Gallagher. The Wisconsin Republican has been put in charge of the new House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party — and the chairman so far is turning his panel into everything the covid committee isn’t: bipartisan, serious and...
by jpitney | Feb 27, 2023 | Biden, Bipartisanship, China, Congress
Joan E Greve and Lauren Gambino at The Guardian (h/t Jacob Smagula):: In the weeks since the US military shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have spoken passionately about the need to more effectively compete...
by jpitney | Dec 6, 2022 | China, Coronavirus, Protest
Terril Jones in Politico: As in 1989, the latest round of protests is not likely to bring down the Party or its leadership. The machinery to control dissent is too strong and too omnipresent. There will be no defiant occupation of Tiananmen Square, and no need to send...
