John L. Thornton: U.S. and China Should Cooperate on Solving Global Issues
There are many areas where the U.S. and China not only could be cooperating, but should be together leading the world.
There are many areas where the U.S. and China not only could be cooperating, but should be together leading the world.
With the benevolent state in control, individuals enjoy the freedom to live their lives, the state being there to support them.
Establishing a presence on TikTok is likely a more achievable and controllable means for the president to engage with young people, especially against the backdrop of his declining popularity among them.
Let us also not forget that the West continues to publicly endorse the one-China principle, although its actions far too often break the principle.
Erasing the error in transnational education has the potential to significantly enhance people-to-people interactions, particularly among younger generations, and thus play a pivotal role in advancing the development of China-U.S. relations.
Given current geopolitical conflicts and trade and investment protectionism trends in the global context, Chinese and U.S. companies should engage in more effective and flexible cooperation in global value, industrial and supply chains.
China has immense potential in developing a green economy due to its strong government commitment, vast market size, and technological capabilities.
The most important way to truly protect human rights is to oppose interventionism and hegemony; to promote multipolarity and true international democracy in the form of multilateralism; and to provide people with education, healthcare, housing and dignified work.
Dialogue and negotiation on equal and mutually respectful footing are the only means that can, and hopefully will, lead to win-win economic cooperation between the two.
China’s civilization, which includes its ideological system, has a history of 5,000 years, over the course of which it has created its own view of the world and of what an individual is entitled to.
The ups and downs in China-U.S. relations shows that cooperation benefits both sides while conflict only brings harms to all.
If the world’s two largest economies can learn from each other, surpass each other, and continuously explore unknown territories for humankind, it is certainly preferable to covert economic rivalries and overt military tensions.