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Bidens Taiwan policy is deeply reckless "One China" is a diplomatic fiction, but it keeps the peace. Yet the administration is moving away from it — and risking a war for which the U.S. is ill-prepared.  By Peter Beinart Text size Copy shortlink: Media coverage of President Joe Bidens foreign policy tends to focus on his efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan, get tough on Russia and negotiate with Iran. But none of those may prove as conseq...

May 5, 2021 Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Al Drago and Tom Brenner for The New York Times, and samxmeg/Getty Images By Peter Beinart Mr. Beinart is a contributing Opinion writer who focuses on U.S. foreign policy. Media coverage of President Biden’s foreign policy tends to focus on his efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan, get tough on Russia and negotiate with Iran. But none of those may prove as consequential as Mr. Biden’s quiet, incremental, moves to ...

BEIJING (Global Times): Former officials, top scholars and a dozen of young scholars from China and the US had in-depth discussions on how to get China-US relations back on track at a forum held in Beijing on April 10. China-US Young Scholars Forum, co-organised by the Global Times, the Carter Center of the US, and the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding with Peking University, was held online to commemorate 5th anniversary of the forum. The event was also held on the day that ma...

Nearly a year to the day after seven new leaders ascended to their posts on the Standing Committee of China’s Politburo, the Asia Society held a public conversation with The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos; Dr. Susan Shirk of the University of California, San Diego; Former Ambassador to China, J. Stapleton Roy; and Orville Schell. The discussion, which you can watch and read below in full, covered China’s leadership transition so far—its successes, shortcomings, and controversies—as well as ...

After a volatile 12 months, hopes grow for more rational US-China relations There is no simple way to sum up relations between China and the United States in 2020. It is safe to say they have been tumultuous, fraught with inflammatory rhetoric, and laden with back-and-forth sanctions. But the relationship also holds hope. The "most consequential" bilateral relationship in the world seems to have reached the bottom of the valley, from where every step to be taken may lead back to the mountain to...

Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Presents Doug McMillon of Walmart with the Legend in Leadership Award December 15, 2020—Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart Inc., will accept the Legend in Leadership Award of the Yale School of Management’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute today during the Yale CEO Summit, held virtually over Zoom.  The award will be presented to Mr. McMillon by Marillyn Hewson, executive chair, Lockheed Martin Corpora...

focused in afghanistan and iraq, china went from, say, zero to 60 in the last 10 years, especially economically. >> 10 years ago, china realized it was rising so rapidly that it was undoubtedly going to cause concern amongst its neighbors. it adopted a policy of alleviating concerns in the region -- soft diplomacy, very effective. it formed a strategic partnership with the association of southeast asian nations, negotiated a code of conduct for the south china sea. it has been undoing ...

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