Chiu-Ti Jansen
No matter what the China bashers say, the US will continue to engage with China’s deep pockets. The best way to compete is with sportsmanship: there can be honour even in the most intense rivalry
Is China a friend or an enemy? This question drove debates between America’s panda huggers and China bashers in early June. Today, the debate rages on despite signs of a
At the Sixth China Inbound-Outbound Forum organised by the Beijing-headquartered Centre for China and Globalisation, I heard jinghe (coopetition, or collaboration between business competitors) punctuating many conversations with former Chinese government officers.
One year ago at the same forum, which I also attended, discussions centred on the trade war and the repercussions of possible “confrontations on all fronts” (quanmian duikang). As the new reality settled in, the Chinese are coming to terms with the “red face, white face” approach of the Trump administration, a Chinese opera reference best translated as the “good cop, bad cop” dynamic.
The “engagement debate”, as it is known in Washington circles, is whether the United States should continue its engagement policy with respect to China. A Washington Post column on July 3 by the luminaries M. Taylor Fravel, J. Stapleton Roy, Michael D. Swaine, Susan A. Thornton and Ezra Vogel, and signed by 100 others, declares that “China is not an enemy”.
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