I 'd say I agree with everything you said and agree that bi-lateral dealing with China is the only way to trade with them but I do not understand how one deals with the damage done. That damage is to multi-lateral institutions that they want to participate in such as the WTO and the necessary increase in industrial policies that I think will drive down human progress even though it is the citizens of the PRC who absorb most of the burden that appears to be for the benefit of the CCP. I guess it is necessary to pay the price as the cost is lower than the cost of war but it is a new paradigm that I do not like at all.
The USA after the end of the cold war attempted to extend cold war institutions globally. This effort to build a world of peace and prosperity was largely succesful! We see only the errors, or tend to, because they are literally grave. But the attempted multilateral rules based world order, even with its errors and excessas was so much better than anything ever seen on earth before. It shall be reformed, but this reform can only be done after and the defeat of Russia.
I 'd say I agree with everything you said and agree that bi-lateral dealing with China is the only way to trade with them but I do not understand how one deals with the damage done. That damage is to multi-lateral institutions that they want to participate in such as the WTO and the necessary increase in industrial policies that I think will drive down human progress even though it is the citizens of the PRC who absorb most of the burden that appears to be for the benefit of the CCP. I guess it is necessary to pay the price as the cost is lower than the cost of war but it is a new paradigm that I do not like at all.
Will have to give this some thought.
Thank you for writing.
The USA after the end of the cold war attempted to extend cold war institutions globally. This effort to build a world of peace and prosperity was largely succesful! We see only the errors, or tend to, because they are literally grave. But the attempted multilateral rules based world order, even with its errors and excessas was so much better than anything ever seen on earth before. It shall be reformed, but this reform can only be done after and the defeat of Russia.