It takes a strong leader to impose limits on his own power, and Biden shows no signs of being strong enough.
Australia's Globalization Expert
Salvatore Babones Posts
History is a bloody record of the excesses of people who were so certain of their moral superiority that they were prepared to kill anyone who dared to disagree with them.
As China’s growth model sputters and Xi Jinping prioritizes repression over reform, China looks unlikely to join the ranks of developed countries.
It is precisely China’s opacity and repression that shields Australians from facing the moral consequences of profiting from China.
China’s recent propaganda taunts and trade sanctions are the bitter recriminations of a lover scorned, and there is nothing Canberra can (realistically) do to return to Beijing’s good graces.
In an economy growing at 5% a year, graduates don’t struggle to find jobs, and governments don’t have trouble paying their bills.
The stunning success of U.S. efforts to hobble Huawei shows the fragility of Beijing’s highly centralized tech sector.
It even has been suggested that the fleet might be multinational in composition, operating something like an ongoing set of naval exercises or even a maritime Indo-Pacific NATO.