What are people talking today:
- While America burns, Donald Trump is busy ‘fixing’ Hong Kong’s problems
Yonden Lhatoo | South China Morning Post
"So when Americans take to the streets in an eruption of rage against systemic racism that has afflicted their country since its founding, they are “rioters” who deserve to be shot dead? But when radicals in Hong Kong go on the rampage, hurling petrol bombs, destroying public property and lynching anyone who objects to their excesses in the name of democracy, they are mighty champions of freedom? The cognitive dissonance makes one’s head spin." - Nixon’s Chinese Translator Views Decoupling as Foolish
Ambassador Chas Freeman | retired U.S. diplomat with service in China, Saudi Arabia & the Defense Department
"Neither country wants a nuclear war or an escalation of conflict to the nuclear level, but each must recognize that, in the absence of better mutual understanding than we now have, both are possible, perhaps even probable. In short, how to manage conflict is something we need actively to discuss. Ignoring the possibility that we might fight each other increases the chances that we will end up doing so.
On US-China Relations:
- The Attacks on China Must Stop
Jonathan Power | CounterPunch - Bashing China doesn't help the United States
Steve Robin | Washington Post - Regarding a “Strategic Approach” to China
Christopher A. Preble | vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute - Last chance for US to counter China's rise
Grant Newsham | Asia Times - Cooperate with China or Suffer
Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng | Project Syndicate - Ending the Dangerous US Dependence on China
Andrew Foxall | director of research at the Henry Jackson Society - The Bully of Beijing
Washington Free Beacon - How the US Can Continue to Push Back Against Beijing
James Carafano | director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies - In a new cold war with China, America may need to befriend Russia
Eric Miller | The Hill - European Union can play vital role in preventing a 'new Cold War'
Chen Weihua | China Daily
On US Election
- Trump's Social Media Executive Order Shows Just How Low He'll Go to Win
John Nichols | The Nation - Joe Biden has a chance to make history on climate change
David Roberts | Vox