, alerting Americans intending to travel to China that they might be targeted so local authorities could "gain bargaining leverage over foreign governments." If China's moves sound like a North Korea-style rogue-state threat, that is because they are.
You only get to a people problem like the one the US and China have after a great deal of distrust has built up. Last year China passed security legislation that has effectively ended democracy in Hong Kong, bringing the former British territory under its political control 27 years earlier than it had said it would. That followed sickening reports of cultural genocide in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where the Chinese Communist Party is holding Muslim minorities in concentration camps.
But Beijing is not perfect, and even the best laid plans are thrown off course. This makes it more useful to understand China not by looking at its future, but its past. This opening-and-closing cycle has also deeply influenced the US-China relationship. While the US was opening up to the world at the turn of the last century, China was chafing under the aggression and influence of the West. In 1881, the Qing dynasty ended a nine-year educational mission to the US by calling its students home. It was afraid the students were turning into "foreign ghosts," becoming too Americanized. This was not lost on the Americans.
In 1905, when Alice Roosevelt, the president's daughter, went to China with US Secretary of War William Howard Taft, she found the city of Guangzhou covered in posters mocking her. In 22 years China's civil war would begin, the Communists would win, and Mao Zedong would shutter China to most of the planet.
lopezlinette Biden will bring it back with Hunter‘s help.
lopezlinette Thanks to trump
lopezlinette One will keep the house, the other one will keep the kids and get an alimony.
lopezlinette We should have never supported China to begin with. Human rights violations, repugnant emissions, devaluation of currency, poor product quality, animal cruelty... CORONA virus. The list goes on and on.
lopezlinette It’s time to ban this police state from every democracy and its market all across this world. We are feeding the devil when we buy products from this police state.