What are people talking:
- US to suffer more if it decouples with China
He Weiwen | senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
"As a matter of fact, the US ban will deal a fatal blow to its own high-tech industry, especially the semiconductor sector. The total world semiconductor chip market was worth $478.4 billion in 2018, with the Chinese market accounting for $158.4 billion, or 33.1 percent of the total, compared with US' $103 billion and Europe's $43 billion. The dependence of the top 10 US chipmakers on China varied from 23 percent for Intel, 52 percent for Broadcom, 63 percent for Qualcomm, to 80 percent for Skyworks Solutions. The loss of the Chinese market will threaten their survival." - The Folly of Decoupling From China
Henry Farrell | Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University
Abraham Newman | Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and in the Department of Government at Georgetown University
"But for all the official enthusiasm for decoupling, there is little agreement on what it would actually entail. Does decoupling mean reducing U.S. economic vulnerabilities? Making the United States less dependent on China? Exploiting China’s dependence on U.S. technology? Withdrawing wholesale from the World Trade Organization? Turning any of these proposals into effective policies would require a level of technical knowledge that neither the U.S. government nor the private sector has right now. Flying blindly ahead, moreover, risks hurting the United States as well as China." - Time for smart leaders to come forward on relations with China
Dan Glickman | vice president at the Aspen Institute & a senior fellow with the Bipartisan Policy Center
"The bottom line is this: we don’t need this unnecessary conflict with China during these uncertain times. American political leaders need to temper the rhetoric on both sides and not make the foundation of the election on who can bash China the hardest. It’s time for mature politicians of both parties to recognize the need to diffuse the problems and work together to solve them. China is the source of some of our problems, but not all. We have to heal ourselves internally on so many fronts, and China cannot be the scapegoat for all our nation’s problems."
On US-China Relations
- Trump's New China Strategy Is a Deft Brand of Hard-Nosed Realism
Walter Lohman | Director of Asian Studies Center
Thomas Spoehr | Director of Center for National Defense
Ambassador Terry Miller | Director of Center for International Trade and Economics - The way to defeat China is to be true to ourselves
Tom Malinowski | Washington Post - China's relations with the US are at their lowest for 30 years, but don't call it a new cold war
Christian Le Miere | foreign policy adviser - The 3 Flashpoints That Could Turn a US-China 'Cold War' Hot
Daniel Russel | Vice President at the Asia Society Policy Institute - Deglobalization Will Hurt Growth Everywhere
Kenneth Rogoff | Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University
On US Election
- America in Crisis
Marvin C. Ott | Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute - Trump has turned America into a pitiful pariah
Max Boot | foreign-policy analyst - China tensions heat up as US election nears
Derek H. Burney | former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. & chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
On US Foreign Policy
- Trump's expanded G7 could be good for Australia but bad for multilateralism
David Uren | The Strategist
On Hong Kong
- Trump promised to revoke Hong Kong's privileged trade status. 4 ways it could alter US relations
Eamon Barrett | Fortune - Why China May Call the World's Bluff on Hong Kong
Alexandra Stevenson & Vivian Wang | The New York Times - China's grip on Hong Kong has financial and political ramifications
Ernest Werlin | Sarasota Herald-Tribune
On George Floyd Incident
- Why are Chinese partaking in 'revenge observation' on US riots?
Chen Qingqing, Liu Xin & Yang Sheng | Global Times - The Worst Yet To Come For Hong Kong
Minxin Pei | The Asean Post