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Well here is a total phucking surprise

WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,560 Standard Supporter
edited November 2020 in Tug Tavern
Now this doesn't sound like capitulation at all. Everyone know that a Kumbaya foreign policy has always worked. Just ask Neville Chamberlain. Well, once a Biden is bought, he stays bought.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-national-security-pick-jake-sullivan-us-chinas

Jake Sullivan has been tapped to fill the role, after previously advising Biden when he served as vice president in the Obama administration. Sullivan also worked for Hillary Clinton when she served as Secretary of State.

Sullivan could bring in a fresh perspective to relations with China when compared with the Trump administration if his past comments are an indication.

During a lecture he delivered on behalf of the Lowy Institute in 2017, Sullivan said leading foreign policy expert Owen Harries was “right” to warn against “containment” as a self-defeating policy, much like acquiescence.

“We need to strike a middle course – one that encourages China’s rise in a manner consistent with an open, fair, rules-based, regional order,” Sullivan said. “This will require care and prudence and strategic foresight, and maybe even more basically it will require sustained attention. It may not have escaped your notice that these are not in ample supply in Washington right now.”

During the same lecture, Sullivan said China policy needs to be about more than just bilateral ties, "it needs to be about our ties to the region that create an environment more conducive to a peaceful and positive sum Chinese rise," he said.

Sullivan reasoned that a thriving China, specifically from an economic standpoint, was good for the global economy, though it depends on the “parameters of the system within which China is rising.

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