Commentary In a Nov. 16, 2020 New York Times article, Ana Swanson used numerous interviews with unnamed sources advising Joe Biden to sum up his “smarter approach” to China: “He [Biden] and his advisers view many of Mr. Trump’s measures, which were aimed at severing ties between the Chinese and American economies, as clumsy, costly and unstrategic. They say they want to take a smarter approach that combines working with the Chinese on some issues like global warming and the pandemic, while competing with them on technological leadership and confronting them on other issues like military expansionism .…” More specifically, some Democrat Asia experts have called out former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for lifting the U.S. Department of State’s onerous “Contact Guidelines” on Jan. 15, that for decades stigmatized officials from democratic Taiwan, as just the kind of “clumsy,” even dangerous, provoking of China they believe Biden will avoid. For example, Center for …