Biden’s Underwhelming First Year in Office
The year 2022 seems more challenging for Biden, who presides over a nation facing more problems than meets the eye.
The year 2022 seems more challenging for Biden, who presides over a nation facing more problems than meets the eye.
Ignorance and arrogance throughout the West remain among the primary reasons the world remains gripped by the pandemic.
The international system is inexorably moving toward more multipolarity, polycentrism and pluralism. Washington is out of step with the trend of the times and must opt for productive diplomacy over destructive war policy.
Ideological warfare and political warfare are a dead end in an era in which the international community seeks peace and development.
From the first day of being a WTO member, China has been devoting its all efforts to all WTO activities covering all the three major functions.
Democracy is not just about casting votes as it is about how people’s interests are represented and furthered by the state, which is why the U.S. model is attracting growing cynicism and dissatisfaction.
It is expected that the summit will polarize the world and new blocks will emerge. It is a bad sign, as the world direly needs cooperation and joint efforts to tackle the issues of pandemic, climate change, food insecurity, shortage of water, and energy.
Democracy is a means, not an end. It is a means to bring good life to all citizens. Democracy should not exist just in form and it has to be substantive.
The great rejuvenation that China has been pursuing is not aimed at dominating the world, but more at making possible the impossible in the fields of economy, science, technology, culture and improving people’s living standards.
Washington must drop the idea that US democracy summits and various ad hoc coalitions can replace the United Nations as the core institution of the present international system.
The fact that President Xi and President Biden were forced to discuss ways of avoiding conflict underscores the perilous state of China-US relations.
Since the awful Anchorage meeting earlier this year after the new administration took power, Biden’s approach to China—which I’ve described as a ‘three-headed monster,’ i.e., compete, cooperate, and contain—has appeared tragically clear and doomed to fail.