Why The U.S. And The World Should Have A 'Coherent, Bipartisan' Strategy For China
Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the U.S. and Xi Jinping's China.'
I support a world where our economy is rid of its dependence from regimes like China and Russia. I hope there are plans in place from the US and it’s allies about this regardless of who is elected next - Democrat or Republican.
The Problem with Russia will end the one or other way earlier or later. How this ends will determine, if China attacks Taiwan in the first half of this century or in its second half. However, that China will attack Taiwan is inevitable as long as China follows Xi's policy.
It is the dilemma of our World, that we have two opposing systems how to rule nations: the western way of democracy, human rights, rule of law and freedom, or the way of countries of China, Russia, North Korea and some more mostly African and northern Asian countries of totalitarianism, chauvinism, control and fascism. It's like the stereotypical eternal fight between Good and Evil, which seems to be ingrained somehow in human existence and civilization. As long as their is no way get rid of dictators and autocrats on a global scale, we will always live under the thread of war, terror and carnage.
The US and world in general need to stop depending on regimes like China....then there's an important and increasingly urgent need to get away from Middle Eastsern oil dependence. Or dependence on oil at all since it's a dwindling resource.
So important for the US political parties and leaders to build bridges and find points of consent instead of focusing on what makes them different! However, to do that, you need to drop all fanaticism and extreme thinking, and put effort in finding common ground, which there is a LOT of. The big problem is that people today tend to resonate with binary thinking, and they vote based on that. This means that politicians who are moderate and try to do the right thing and build bridges may lose against the extreme ones who appeal to the more basic "friend or foe" instinct . This is a terrible dilemma of the times. People quickly deem the moderate as "weak" (however wise he/she may truly be) , while the extreme ones are perceived as "powerful and smart". We are in big trouble...
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