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Posted on May 20, 2021. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is not happy with President Joe Biden playing the “Iran card,” nor is he pleased with the “North Korea card,” not to mention the “Taiwan card.” But right now he is most concerned about Biden playing the “Russia card.” The reason? First, Xi does not care that Biden is playing the “Iran card” because Beijing and Tehran are hard-core allies, and China has only recently signed a 50-year deal to buy crude oil from Iran. Second, Xi is not afraid of Biden playing the “North Korea card” because not only does Pyongyang rely heavily on Beijing’s economic assistance, but North Korea’s nuclear and missile development have also been supported to a certain extent by mainland China. ....
POLITICO Get the POLITICO China Watcher newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 05/20/2021 08:30 AM EDT Welcome, China Watchers. This week’s guest host is Phelim Kine, who has been reporting on China for two decades as a journalist and human rights researcher for companies ranging from Dow Jones Newswires in Beijing to Human Rights Watch in Hong Kong. Kine is the senior director for Asia at the Washington environmental campaign organization Mighty Earth, where he tracks how commodity exports to China fuel deforestation in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Over to you, Phelim. John Yearwood, global news editor ....
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May 15, 2021 Share The Alliance of Democracies, headquartered in Copenhagen, was sanctioned by Beijing earlier this year, but that has not stopped it from carrying out its self-proclaimed mission of acting as a “megaphone for democracy.” The organization, led by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, concluded a Democracy Summit this week, and called on democratic nations to establish collective defense in the economic domain, as trade is increasingly being weaponized by Beijing. Global security continues to require hard power capabilities, “but security is now also a question of soft power capabilities, cyber, energy security, supply chain security, resilience to disinformation campaigns and much more,” Rasmussen told VOA in a written interview from Copenhagen. “In my view, we are seeing an increasing trend of our own freedoms weaponized.” ....
Comments COPENHAGEN, DENMARK The United States is the nation that most threatens democracy worldwide, far more than Russia or even China. That is the headline finding from a new worldwide poll of 53 countries commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies (AoD). The poll also found that the global public considers rising inequality and the increased power of the super rich to be the greatest threat to liberty and democracy. This was likely not the response the Alliance of Democracies wished to hear as it opened its third annual Democracy Summit in Copenhagen this week precisely because the organization represents the U.S. government and the wealthy elite more generally. Featuring an all-star panel of American officials, Western heads of state and military leaders, this year’s summit was somber in tone and focused on the “urgent need” for Western nations to unite and come up with a “transatlantic response” to counter both Russia an ....