Rivals Within Reason? :: Foreign Affairs
By Kevin Rudd | July 20, 2022 #china#foreignPolicy#bidenAdministration#diplomacy#xiJinping
In the year and a half since President Joe Biden took office, competition between the United States and China has only intensified. Rather than dismantle former President Donald Trump’s tough policies toward Beijing, Biden has largely continued them, underscoring that the two powers are almost certainly headed for a protracted period of sharp and militarily dangerous strategic rivalry. But that doesn’t mean that the United States and China are moving inexorably toward crisis, escalation, conflict, or even war. To the contrary, Beijing and Washington may be groping toward a new set of stabilizing arrangements that could limit—though not eliminate—the risk of sudden escalation.
Assessing the state of U.S.-Chinese relations at any given time is never easy, given the difficulty of distinguishing between what each side says about the other publicly—often for domestic political effect—and what each is actually doing behind the scenes. Yet despite the harsh and often heated rhetoric, some early signs of stabilization have emerged, including the tentative reconstitution of a form of political and security dialogue aimed at managing tensions.
Such stabilization falls well short of normalization, which would mean restoring comprehensive political, economic, and multilateral engagement. The days of normalization have been consigned to history. But stabilization would nonetheless be significant. It would mean the difference between strategic competition that is managed through steadying guardrails and competition that is unmanaged—that is, driven by a process of push and shove, primarily by each country’s military, in the hope that on any given day no one pushes too far. The question for both sides, and for the countries that are caught in the middle of this titanic struggle for the future of the regional and global orders, is what kind of strategic competition they will pursue.
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KEVIN RUDD is President of the Asia Society, in New York, and previously served as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia.
Rivals Within Reason? :: Foreign Affairs
By Kevin Rudd | July 20, 2022 #china#foreignPolicy#bidenAdministration#diplomacy#xiJinping
In the year and a half since President Joe Biden took office, competition between the United States and China has only intensified. Rather than dismantle former President Donald Trump’s tough policies toward Beijing, Biden has largely continued them, underscoring that the two powers are almost certainly headed for a protracted period of sharp and militarily dangerous strategic rivalry. But that doesn’t mean that the United States and China are moving inexorably toward crisis, escalation, conflict, or even war. To the contrary, Beijing and Washington may be groping toward a new set of stabilizing arrangements that could limit—though not eliminate—the risk of sudden escalation.
Assessing the state of U.S.-Chinese relations at any given time is never easy, given the difficulty of distinguishing between what each side says about the other publicly—often for domestic political effect—and what each is actually doing behind the scenes. Yet despite the harsh and often heated rhetoric, some early signs of stabilization have emerged, including the tentative reconstitution of a form of political and security dialogue aimed at managing tensions.
Such stabilization falls well short of normalization, which would mean restoring comprehensive political, economic, and multilateral engagement. The days of normalization have been consigned to history. But stabilization would nonetheless be significant. It would mean the difference between strategic competition that is managed through steadying guardrails and competition that is unmanaged—that is, driven by a process of push and shove, primarily by each country’s military, in the hope that on any given day no one pushes too far. The question for both sides, and for the countries that are caught in the middle of this titanic struggle for the future of the regional and global orders, is what kind of strategic competition they will pursue.
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KEVIN RUDD is President of the Asia Society, in New York, and previously served as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia.
🚀 China Engages in Dialogue Amid Iran Conflict
China has stated that it has been in communication with all relevant parties since the onset of the Iran conflict. According to NS3.AI, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning addressed the matter when questioned about the White House's assertions regarding recent high-level discussions between the U.S. and China on the issue.
#China#IranConflict#Diplomacy#ForeignPolicy#USChinaRelations
In this review of Professor Sreeram Chaulia’s new book ‘Friends’ for Hindustan Times, Ambassador Lakshmi Puri goes deep into bilateralism, multilateralism and the very essence of interests and values that determine friendships in #ForeignPolicy. She also warns of the “inbuilt risks of some of these partnerships”, and makes a strong case for #India to build “safeguards against slide-backs” through diversification of strategic partnerships. This is an ideationally enriching essay by one of the legends of India’s #diplomacy. Do read it in full and share your views!
➡️https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/reviewfriends-india-s-closest-strategic-partners-by-sreeram-chaulia-101735905852811.html
Govt sends MoS MEA Pabitra Margherita, top official- JS PAI Anand Prakash, offer solemn respects at the 40th day (Chehelum) mourning ceremony of Iran's Late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei organized by Iran Embassy in New Delhi #ForeignPolicy
🔍🛡⌛️🇨🇳 Zensur im Netz - Xi Jinping hat befohlen, die Kontrolle über Blogger und Online-Plattformen zu verschärfen, so das chinesische Zentralfernsehen.
Laut dem Sender forderte der Vorsitzende der VR China die Schaffung eines langfristigen Mechanismus zur Internetverwaltung.
Unter die verstärkte Kontrolle fallen Plattformen, private Blogs und MCN-Agenturen, die verpflichtet werden, soziale Verantwortung zu übernehmen und „positiven Inhalt“ zu verbreiten.
🎙„Es ist notwendig, den Mut zu haben, das ‚Schwert zu ziehen‘ gegen das Chaos im Netz, entschlossene Schläge zu führen, Interessenketten zu durchbrechen und den Nährboden für deren Entstehung auszurotten“, zitiert das Fernsehen seine Worte.
Quelle RIA Nowosti
Meinung des Kanalbetreibers: 💬es ist anzunehmen, daß der Schritt aufgrund der verstärkten Angriffe & der so genannten Softpower Aktionen westlicher Geheimdienste & NGO`s notwendig ist, welche in erster Linie zur Organisation von Unruhen & Farbrevolutionen in "ungehorsamen" Ländern führen...
👀 Teilen kann zum Aufwachen beitragen!
✨🆕🌐Hauptkanal
✨▶️🌐 Videokanal
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#China#XiJinping#InternetKontrolle#InternetVerwaltung
Trump’s Iran Blockade Is Now a China Problem
Trump sold the Iran blockade as leverage. In practice, it has become a global interference machine, and the next big stop is Beijing.
The New York Times says the Strait of Hormuz is likely to still be shut when Trump arrives in China, which means the trip is no longer just about trade, Taiwan, or cyber conflict.
It is now being dragged into the economic fallout of a war Beijing already called unnecessary.
That is the kind of diplomatic self-sabotage Washington specializes in.
Trump wanted to arrive in Beijing with the image of a strongman who could bend Iran, but instead he may show up as the man who made oil more expensive, complicated China’s energy supply, and then called the blockade “genius.”
Xi Jinping is not taking this as a side issue. China has publicly urged the reopening of the strait, warned against a return to the “law of the jungle,” and has every reason to treat the blockade as both an energy threat and a precedent it does not want normalized.
So the trip to China is becoming less of a grand reset and more of a courtroom scene.
Trump walks in claiming maximum leverage, while the evidence keeps piling up that his war has turned into a tax on his own diplomacy.
#Trump#China#Iran#Hormuz#XiJinping#trade
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China’s new military base near Beijing is set to dwarf the Pentagon, signaling a major escalation in its defense capabilities. Experts speculate the massive complex will enhance China's nuclear war-fighting power and could serve as a doomsday bunker. This construction comes amid rising tensions with Taiwan and Beijing’s expanding military ambitions.
#China#UnitedStates#Pentagon#XiJinping#Taiwan
📌Este 25 de marzo, el puerto de La Habana, Cuba, recibió al buque "Loyalty Hong", que transporta 15 mil 600 toneladas de arroz donadas por la República Popular #China.
🔴Este cargamento es la tercera entrega de una donación más amplia, completando un total de 30 mil toneladas de arroz que la Embajada de China en Cuba anunció en enero de este año.
Fuente: Telesur