Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power 

As an American expat who has lived in Asia for the past 30 years, I have a good understanding of how the US and China view each other, and found this interview to be a telling illustration of why current US foreign policies toward China are so flawed. As Professor Jeffrey Sachs (among others) advocates, I think the fundamental issue we should ask ourselves is why the US finds it difficult to accept that China, as the world's largest major trading power and second largest economy, wants to have a stronger say in world affairs and a military that can protect its economic interests such as shipping routes as what many other global trading powers have done in the past 200 years, including Great Britain and the US. because once we take the position that the US must be able to continue to dominate China geopolitically, economically and militarily -- something i am not sure is realistic or even fair -- then that's how we get ourselves into this cycle of contentious dynamics and mutually destructive behavior (e.g., the US using Taiwan as a leverage against China and sending a carrier to sail through the Taiwan Straits even though it had already committed to the notion that Taiwan was part of China as a basis of the normalization in 1979, prompting China to build up its anti-carrier defense in the Taiwan Straits, etc.). Before we escalate the China bashing, we need to take a step back and ask ourselves whether we are leading the world toward a dangerous place because of our own double standards (unfortunately something that a number of current events elsewhere are exposing us of...)

7:00 i used to work in the building in the background! 😂

More like a lost decade and half. Depending on the election, easily 2 decades.

Google left China in 2009, in that year there was terrorism attacks in China and Google was mixed up with those extraterritorial terrorists, and decided to leave b/c it wanted to take care of those terrorists and refuse to comply with CN law. That was before announcement of "pivoting to Asia" in 2011. All of you know so little about China, even basic facts were wrong. Steve Orlins is actually relatively more knowledgeable and slightly more objective. The Ambassador was strange, you announced pivoting to Asia, then you sent your officials visiting Asian countries to work them against China, you formed all those mini-coalitions targeting and militarily circling China, but you expect China to know that you didn't actually pivot to Asia? China was shocked to the core in 1991, but it was dirt poor and weak, didn't have any money and the country was corrupted and infiltrated. Yin He Hao event occurred in 1993, when US military demanded a search in high sea, when Yin He Hao refused, the US turned off it GPS, so it drifted aimlessly in the ocean for 33 days, and had to succumb to the humiliation in the end. The US military didn't find anything, they never said sorry. This is one of the greatest humiliation Chinese consider to have been subjected to by the US, which kicked started the development of Bei Dou in 1994, and it took China 20 plus years to finish the entire system, and now it's better than GPS. Then the humiliation of 1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis: Li Denghui visiting the US, US lied and bullied the PRC, and there was nothing the PRC could do. Then the bombing of the CN embassy in Belgrade in 1999, US lied through its teeth. US surveillance flights: how many times a day near China? CN only doesn't want to be bullied, every step of the way, you bullied (not to mention the attempts of color revolutions, sponsored terrorists). Olins asked a valid question: US is responsible for it, CN was trying desperately to survive and not to be bullied. So when the US announced that it would militarily target and contain China in 2011, of course it caught China's attention.

35:15 policy recommendations starts here. Nothing new here. Just a list of old and tired ideas.

13:48 they’d do it anyway, what was missing is a good dialogue about what rule based order really is, an education. 25:55 the word competition can be viewed in two different ways; Chinese, being copycat, mostly ignores the original meaning. This contributes to the fact that seemingly common interests end up opposite directions.

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