A global resurgence in national self-reliance might actually be a good thing for America’s place in the world.
Australia's Globalization Expert
Category: Foreign Policy
Western democracies may lose the coronavirus propaganda war, but China certainly won’t win it.
Australian universities are so dependent on money from Chinese students that they’re helping them circumvent travel bans and quarantines. The United States shows a better way.
Taiwan deserves to be a normal country. That’s not America’s problem, but the United States can use gradual steps toward the recognition of Taiwan to help it achieve larger goals such as economic liberalization and the promotion of human rights.
In 2019, Trump won a “phase one” deal with China. In 2020, Beijing may have to give him more.
American millennials may resent their baby boomer elders for ruining the world, but generational politics in mainland China and Hong Kong are more complicated.
The initiative that almost wasn’t, still isn’t.
The trade war has ended in a stalemate. The currency war has just begun.