I simply don’t understand the game that the US is playing here.
These talks seem pointless on their face, given the US doesn’t seem to want to bring anything to the table. It feels more like they want an opportunity to air grievances publically, then whine when their Chinese counterparts don’t offer immediate unilateral concessions.
So is this all about domestic PR? Or are they actually offering some kind of compromise?
Not sure if there’s even a compromise to consider. Right now, I’m taking it for what they claim. That they’re trying to cool things off and repair diplomatic relations. Things have gotten pretty tense as China has been flexing more power in the region, the spy balloon incidents, and the Chinese gov’s more aggressive stance with Taiwan under Xi.
China backed an odd horse with Russia. China seeks a weak but stable Russia, and the US doesn’t have much insight how this plays out but wants a weak Russia due to their aggression. They have agreements here.
China’s domestic economic isn’t as healthy as they would like to tell everyone. They are having massive issues on re-firing the engines after Covid zero policy. China insisted on the US Economic heads to visit first but refused. China is not in the best position here as evident of Blinken going first.
They also see President Biden has a path to re-election. Which gives Democrats access to US tax code changes and possibility of making the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) a reality. US & Europe are getting closer to cooperating a lot more, but it hinges on re-election.
China backed an odd horse with Russia.
They’re the two largest landmasses on the Earth’s largest continent. And Beijing hasn’t favored Russia so much as it has remained neutral.
China’s domestic economic isn’t as healthy as they would like to tell everyone.
Idk. They’ve got the plurality of global industrial capital. They’ve got an enormous labor force. They’ve got an economy that’s still growing while everyone else is shrinking (outside the FIRE sector). They’re leading the charge on Climate Change, education, and health care technologies. And the BRI threatens to upend the entire post-WW2 flow of trade.
There are other BRICS states that are arguably growing faster, but mostly because they’ve got so much undeveloped territory to expand into. China’s plucked all its low hanging fruit and is firmly a global leader in virtually every field.
possibility of making the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) a reality.
Just the TPP all over again. Nevermind that its a non-starter in the Senate. These plans are just financialization gambits. One more stab and inflating a new debt bubble and calling it growth.
Even if we did get the IPEF, we’d just be reinventing 20th century industrial capital for the third time in 50 years.
And that’s assuming Pacific states could plug the hole created by all our sanctions on China in the midst of surging sea levels and storms.
And Beijing hasn’t favored Russia so much as it has remained neutral.
This is Nuetral to who a landmass appreciator?
Mishustin later met President Xi Jinping, while Li added that China and Russia’s “practical cooperation” has continued to develop steadily, with the bilateral trade volume having “increased significantly” by more than 40 per cent this year.
Idk. They’ve got the plurality of global industrial capital. They’ve got an enormous labor force.
That is dependent on exports! If everyone is importing less or alternating suppliers, they get slumped. They have a short-term drag with high youth unemployment right now. Not saying it can’t be resolved but it doesn’t help. Not to mention they have a big issue in their property market that is still being shorted out.
They’re leading the charge on Climate Change, education, and health care technologies
The leaders in green energy somehow can’t stop relying on Coal. Whatever on the rest of that nonsense.
And the BRI threatens to upend the entire post-WW2 flow of trade.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Get back with me on what common currency they can even decide on and if China would take that responsibility & risk.
I’m done the rest is too silly.
This is Nuetral to who a landmass appreciator?
Not sure what that means
Russia’s “practical cooperation” has continued to develop steadily, with the bilateral trade volume having “increased significantly” by more than 40 per cent this year.
Americans squeeze one end of the tube and China gets a fat dollop on their end.
Russian exports are trading at an enormous discount.
If everyone is importing less or alternating suppliers, they get slumped.
Someone gets slumped, certainly. But during the last two recessions, China still outperformed the globe. And, again, without using the FIRE sector as a crutch.
The leaders in green energy somehow can’t stop relying on Coal
You seem to have China confused with Germany. China is leading the world in nuclear energy facilities. Coal is in the rear window.
Get back with me on what common currency they can even decide on
I’ve got more faith in the BRICS than the EU in answering that question for the next generation.
