The great danger of allowing China to co-manage global order
The article discusses the implications of the U.S.-China relationship and the potential normalization of China as a co-manager of global order. It highlights the importance of strategic communication between the two powers while cautioning against sidelining America's democratic allies. The piece emphasizes that the U.S. must engage with China without undermining its longstanding alliances.
- ▪The Make America Great Again movement is skeptical of the recent summit between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
- ▪The U.S. faces the challenge of engaging China without weakening its alliance structures that support American global leadership.
- ▪Japan, under Prime Minister Takaichi, has accelerated defense modernization and expanded its military capabilities in response to Chinese power projections.
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“Has China defeated our country?” chirped right-wing activist Mike Cernovich when reposting a clip of President Donald Trump speaking to Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Friday. The Make America Great Again movement, committed to confronting China, not Russia, was not impressed by the recent summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom it sees as the foreign adversary par excellence. Yet beneath the ideological noise surrounding the summit lies a far more consequential geopolitical question: is Washington gradually normalizing China as a co-manager of global order? Strategic communication between the world’s two largest powers is necessary, particularly amid rising tensions over trade, technology, and Taiwan.
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