This is interesting on a number of fronts -- the strange elite consensus on a hardline on China and the lack of public buy-in. I have to say, the public seems wiser than the elite on this.https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1090955669581324290 …
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Take the Cold War again. Lots of people in DC both *genuinely* cared about, say, Polish or Hungarian freedom *and* saw it as part of a necessary geopolitical struggle. People are complicated.
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And, again, *China* thinks this is a matter of great power politics. This isn't a choice being made exclusively or even primarily by the US; it's the result of a far more aggressive and ideological turn in Beijing over the last few years.
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Perhaps the U.S. should emulate China and claim all the waters down to the shores of Central America as U.S. sovereign territory.
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Google: "Munroe Doctrine"
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More seriously, of course it's great power politics. The U.S. foreign policy establishment has (correctly) given up on the hope that China would buy into the premises of the existing international system (of course, with U.S. at center).
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Nice rhetorical shift from “global elites” to “DC elites” when it suits your purpose. No global elite adopted a friendlier posture towards China than Trudeau, and he has been paying quite the price for that stance. And yes, in part (not totally) because of humanitarian concerns.
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