There won’t be a call this Friday. We’re off for the Thanksgiving break. Join us on the following week, Friday, December 3, when our guest will be Representative Mark Pocan, who will talk about the visit he and Representative Jamaal Bowman recently took to the
The time for engagement with China has come to an end because China has exploited American engagement to their own benefit and is an untrustworthy actor.
If climate change is an existential threat to the world and equally to the US and China, and it is, then the US shouldn't have to do anything to encourage China to engage: it should be able to do so on its own merits. America shouldn't just give up its legitimate concerns with China and how it operates in the world system because of climate change.
And Palestine should have come to the table and agreed on a two state solution long ago. They had the opportunity in 1947 and blew it. They shouldn't be able to get everything they want NOW after rejecting the diplomatic efforts of the past. That's not how negotiations work.
Re the Beltway's escalation of "China is a threat" - they have to justify our astronomical and ever-increasing defense budget one way or another.
The time for engagement with China has come to an end because China has exploited American engagement to their own benefit and is an untrustworthy actor.
If climate change is an existential threat to the world and equally to the US and China, and it is, then the US shouldn't have to do anything to encourage China to engage: it should be able to do so on its own merits. America shouldn't just give up its legitimate concerns with China and how it operates in the world system because of climate change.
And Palestine should have come to the table and agreed on a two state solution long ago. They had the opportunity in 1947 and blew it. They shouldn't be able to get everything they want NOW after rejecting the diplomatic efforts of the past. That's not how negotiations work.