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    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 23 00:27:31 2024
    "Beijing does not believe that the outcome of the 2024 presidential
    election in the United States has much bearing on the overall trajectory
    of U.S. policy toward China. No matter who entered the White House, the
    next president of the United States would be backed by a bipartisan
    consensus that perceives China as a threat to U.S. global dominance and
    would keep trying to contain China.
    ..

    Those who anticipate a darkening cold war between China and Trump’s
    United States are misguided. The United States’ competition with China
    is not over ideology—as it was with the Soviet Union—but over
    technology. In the digital age, security and prosperity depend hugely on technological progress. China and the United States will battle over
    innovation in fields such as artificial intelligence and wrestle over
    markets and high-technology supply chains. They will not—and certainly
    not under Trump—seek to convert others to their preferred governing
    ideology. The Soviet Union and the United States used proxy wars to
    spread communism and capitalism, respectively. The global South, in
    particular, still feels the echoes of the devastation and upheaval these
    wars unleashed around the world. Today, however, proxy conflicts between
    the great powers serve little purpose. ...

    In great power competition, foreign policy can often play second fiddle
    to domestic policy. ... reforms at home will really determine the course
    of the competition between the two powers. "

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 23 00:28:03 2024
    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/why-china-isnt-scared-trump

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 24 02:18:24 2024
    "I just spent a week in Beijing and Shanghai, meeting with Chinese
    officials, economists and entrepreneurs, and let me get right to the
    point: While we were sleeping China took a great leap forward in
    high-tech manufacturing of everything.

    If no one has told Donald Trump, then I will: His nickname on Chinese
    social media today is “Chuan Jianguo” — meaning “Trump the (Chinese) Nation Builder” — because of how his relentless China bashing and
    tariffs during his first term as president lit a fire under Beijing to
    double down on its efforts to gain global supremacy in electric cars,
    robots and rare materials, and to become as independent of America’s
    markets and tools as possible.

    “China had its Sputnik moment — his name was Donald Trump,” Jim
    McGregor, a business consultant who lived in China for 30 years, told
    me. “He woke them up to the fact that they needed an all-hands-on-deck
    effort to take their indigenous scientific, innovative and advanced manufacturing skills to a new level.”"

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/opinion/us-china-musk-swift-tariffs-manufacturing.html

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