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Harvey Dzodin: US politicians should stop playing with fire on China
The White House just declared "war" on China — not a hot war, but something closer to a "Cold War 2.0". It's an act of desperation to divert the electorate's attention from the US administration's lack of leadership at home — and abroad — by targeting a country the White House has railed against since the 1980s. This doesn't bode well.
July 24 , 2020 -
US-China NGO cooperation essential in pandemic fight
Despite strained diplomatic ties between China and the United States, nongovernmental cooperation in response to the coronavirus pandemic shows how shared ideals of humanitarianism and bonds built over four decades of engagement can transcend nationalist sentiment and politicization, analysis has shown.
July 13 , 2020 -
Fighting the coronavirus pandemic amid the China-U.S. rift
While the years-long trade war has yet to recede, the coronavirus pandemic is further fueling the estrangement between China and the U.S. Over the past months, toxicity from COVID-19 has evolved into toxicity in politics as the two nations drift further from their four-decade-long engagement policy. Fears of decoupling and a new cold war dominate today's rhetoric about the entanglement of the world's two economic titans.
July 09 , 2020 -
China-US civilian cooperation strong despite political headwinds
U.S. President Trump has blamed the global coronavirus pandemic on China, straining relations between the two countries. But it by no means represents how non-governmental sectors in both countries have viewed and worked to cope with the unprecedented health crisis. That's according to a think-tank report, China-US non-governmental cooperation in response to COVID-19. The report is released Monday by the Center for China and Globalization, with support from the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the China Friendship Foundation for Peace and Development (CFFPD).
July 07 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: China Should Join Trade Deal the U.S. Abandoned
The Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying the most destructive trends in global trade. Support for free trade has given way to talk of decoupling and de-globalization. Tensions between the U.S. and China are rising, as are calls for protectionism and re-shoring of far-flung supply chains. It is no longer seen as desirable, or even possible, to integrate countries that possess different economic systems or ideologies.
June 26 , 2020
