Commentary
Recently, a prominent American holder of high office and an eminent American academic and historical biographer proposed similar methods for resolving the war in Ukraine.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who in an administration that had more capable and articulate spokespeople on foreign and strategic matters wouldn’t opine on the subject of war in Central Europe at all, came closer than the administration yet has to a peace plan for Ukraine.
On April 20, she implied that the United States should invite China to take a leadership role in convincing its junior ally Russia, now clinging desperately to China’s geopolitical coattails like a person whose legs are asleep, to be more tractable in its peace terms. The Treasury Secretary suggested that this proposed policy for China could be incentivized by the United States improving economic relations with China….