Commentary
Seemingly everyone wants the United States and China to “talk” these days, for one reason or another.
For starters, the long-time China engagement crowd in the United States wants to continue pursuing the misguided policies that jump-started the Chinese mercantilism and subsequent belligerence that plagues the world in exchange for receiving crumbs from the communist Chinese table. Fame and fortune for all: diplomatic careers, prominence in academia and non-profit organizations, paid-for sinecures in China, Chinese “investments” in institutions favoring engagement, etc. Never mind the devastation wrought on Americans in the Rust Belt and Deep South because of manufacturing concerns being moved to China over the decades….