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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Here's my big foreign policy thought: since the real existential threat to humanity is climate change, the world can't afford another round of great power politics. Unfortunately, global elites refuse to recognize this.
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Must be of great comfort to a million Muslims in concentration camps in Xinjiang. 'I'm so glad that nobody is making an issue of this in order to keep working toward a largely abstract and unrealizable ideal of international cooperation!'
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I like your faith that American elites care about Muslims.
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You work with the tools you have, and in this case, even if someone like Marco Rubio has ulterior motives - and he does - for being the champion of Uighur rights, it's better than nothing.
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Framing a tougher approach to China as *only* a great power struggle ignores - or, at best, sidelines - the very many people being hurt by the intensification of Chinese repression already.
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If this were being driven by human rights rather than great power politics, DC elite wouldn't take it up. I'm old enough to remember when Reagan & Thatcher worked with China to protect and arm Khmer Rouge.
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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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"Monroe" but yes.
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