The U.S. ought to pay real attention to religious discrimination on its own soil and stop politicizing religious issues. No rumor or slander can negate the fact that freedom of religious belief is guaranteed in Xinjiang.
China will remain open and learn more about the world as it works with other countries. It values cooperation but at the same time should be prepared to compete with the U.S.
Anti-China framing for such initiatives is not only politically unnecessary; it is harmful, as it inevitably feeds racism, violence, xenophobia, and white nationalism.
The Biden administration must engage in what was once called an ‘agonizing reappraisal’ of its foreign policy. In the present case, this means dropping the Cold War mindset and taking effective steps to engage the world constructively on the basis of mutual advantage and mutual respect.
In short, China has achieved many advances for both positive and negative rights in both its domestic and foreign affairs.
Hopefully, as the months wear on and President Biden’s domestic crises abate, he will return to the position he has expressed in the past, allowing that “China is not our enemy.” Or he may feel compelled by political pressure to continue to challenge China.
If competition with the U.S. becomes inevitable, then it should be managed properly to avoid any hard confrontation, a prerequisite for China’s overall development.
As the cliche goes, there is not much there, meaning the all-too-popular narrative about China has driven this more than 200-page effort to further strain Washington-Beijing relations.
China’s immediate goals have always concerned advocating a “peaceful rise” aimed at securing its own prosperity and development, and subsequently is now lending that opportunity to other countries too as a multilateral initiative.
This is thus not a politics of “blame” or “shaming” but it is an invitation to work together as an international community on a set of common goals and standards.
Relations between China and the United States have hit their rockiest point for decades but cooperating on climate change has the potential to be a point of rapprochement for both sides to build from.
We still have climate change as an entry point for China-U.S.teamwork, which might, in the future, involve further cooperation across new areas.
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