Good dictators like Pinochet or MBS? Oh wait, MBS doesn't pick up the phone so he is a bad dictator now.
Good dictators like Pinochet or MBS? Oh wait, MBS doesn't pick up the phone so he is a bad dictator now.
To be fair, it is not Biden who said this, just some opinion think tank person.
Also to be fair, his thesis is absolutely correct. Good governance is not really a product of popular-vote democracy. This is the argument that China makes all the time. He's just basically ignoring this huge example.
Only "tough guys" on the internet is willing to take the pain. The avg person on the street doesn't care about china or geopolitics... or care enought to have their life uprooted, they don't want to spend more to get less.
China is not a dictatorship. Xi is legally more constrained in his power than Biden is. For example Xi is not even a unilateral commander in chief of the PLA (he has to go through the CMC) while Biden can unilaterally do anything with the military.
Quite surprising! US Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh recommends lifting Tariffs to combat Inflation and supply chain concerns.
This Indian dude was the Biden's Architect of the Russian Sanctions. It is also the the same Indian dude that Biden sent to India to lecture them about Russian oil purchases (probably secretly bashed China there too?)
This Indian dude was the Biden's Architect of the Russian Sanctions. It is also the the same Indian dude that Biden sent to India to lecture them about Russian oil purchases (probably secretly bashed China there too?)
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She is a big whale...
U.S Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen supports removing tariffs on China. (Wasn't she warning China about 'helping Russia' just a week ago?)
Yellen is one trying to combat inflation risk, so she likely thinks tariffs reduction is one way to reduce inflation in addition to monetary policy changes.
U.S Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen supports removing tariffs on China. (Wasn't she warning China about 'helping Russia' just a week ago?)
Yellen is one trying to combat inflation risk, so she likely thinks tariffs reduction is one way to reduce inflation in addition to monetary policy changes.
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Just realized this maybe beneficial for China currently, who's experiencing a weaker Yuan from multiple factors. As long as they keep those factories running and bring back that ones that are closed because of covid, they could earn enough to stabilize the currency through exports.
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Fact... Every time the US has to admit something like they need China to stem inflation, they will always display an opposite reaction in order to counter to make the US look tough. That's why they're saying Blinken will not say anything new. The West thinks everyone else thinks just like them but worse. That's why China's zero tolerance COVID policy confuses them. The West thinks about money first. That's why the West concentrates on how China's policy is causing all these economic shock waves around the world and China is losing a lot of money. They think Chinese think money is most important to get China to lift the policy.
Seems like different policymakers in US are now having their own separate strategy to manage China, from short term tactics aiming to curb China's economic and tech growth or long term aim of balkanising China.
Be it the Treasury, WH, Senate or the DoD.