A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?

A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?

Biden’s backing seems to come from elements within the US power structure that favor a softer approach with Beijing. However, the escalated climate of the previous four years may make a big reversal in Sino-US relations impossible. Biden may simply follow Trump’s course as the geopolitical stage marches ahead post-COVID, completely reshuffled.

Is this the most important election ever?

Warrantless surveillance of every citizen. An international network of torture houses beyond the reach of domestic law. Mass round-ups of Arab, Muslim and South Asian men. Indefinite detention of immigrants. Law enforcement given the power to search houses without the occupant’s knowledge. Authorising the use of the military in the case of domestic unrest during an epidemic. The construction of a southern border barrier to stop refugees and undocumented migrants entering the country. An executive empowered to declare anyone an enemy of the state and order their assassination. The abandonment of an international treaty to limit carbon emissions and reduce the threat of global warming. The creation of mercenary armies and the unleashing of religious zealotry. Electoral fraud resulting in a stolen presidential election.

Is this the most important election ever?

[2008] The Dirty Trickster

The Dirty Trickster

Over the years, Stone’s relationships with colleagues and clients have been so combustible that his value as a messenger has been compromised. Stone worked for Donald Trump as an occasional lobbyist and as an adviser when Trump considered running for President in 2000. “Roger is a stone-cold loser,” Trump told me. “He always tries taking credit for things he never did.” Like Nixon, Stone is also a great hater—of, among others, the Clintons, Karl Rove, and Spitzer. So what happened at Miami Velvet one night last September, he said, amounted to a gift.

Interesting article about Roger Stone. Eliot Spitzer was the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” prior to being Governor of New York.

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Legacy of CIA operations in Tibet shows Pompeo can’t be trusted

Legacy of CIA operations in Tibet shows Pompeo can’t be trusted

The policy however, came to an end when Richard Nixon visited China in 1972 and paved the way to re-establishing bilateral relations, resulting in the creation of Shanghai Communiqué. The agreement set out that both sides should “conduct their relations on the principles of respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states” and therefore, the United States accepted Chinese sovereignty over Tibet and ended the program.

As a result of this legacy, China has perceived its sovereignty in the region as being challenged by the West. While active promotion of insurgency has ended, the United States has nevertheless sought to indirectly encourage separatism through tools such as Radio Free Asia and as a result, the United States has failed to establish trust with Beijing on this issue.