Debate: It’s Time to Treat China Like an Adversary not a Partner

China: a partner or adversary? Nathan Law, Alan Mendoza, Shirley Yu and Vince Cable debate how nations should approach China on questions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Covid-19, economics and national security.

Chaired by Manveen Rana.

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[Intelligence-Squared]

Do you agree it's time to take a tougher stance with China?

[emmanuelflomo]

Seriously, the very thing lacking in this so called debate is actual intelligence.

[naturalbornchiller]

Shirley Yu is for treating China as a partner. However, her tone and rhetoric damaged her argument. That poor microphone.

[dcklee]

Shirley seemed pissed when she spoke. Honestly does she believe in her own speech?

[Theo-eqei]

Debate has to overcome prejudice, one of the hardest things to overcome when dealing with those who take a position of moral superiority.

[elbarca]

Shirley Yu is incorrect about elite US Univ like Harvard feeling pressure admitting Chinese. Not at all. The two nationalities among all countries are the highest at Harvard: China and India. Harvard is happy to have Chinese students. No pressure at all.

[TheRealAudioDidact]

How can you listen to someone screaming at you?

[tazldn]

Shirley Yu basically said the Western world shouldn't treat China as an adversary because at some point China will be able to dominate the US. That sounds fairly adversarial.

[valkamochalin]

Before
53%: "treat as adversary", 22%: "treat as partner", 23%:"undecided"
After
69%: "treat as adversary", 23%: "treat as partner", 8%: "undecided"

[ronvara]

Nathan Law was a rioter in Hong Kong.

Rioting is terrorism!

Jail the rioters for ever; return peace to real ordinary Hong Kong citizens!

[marilensidri]

Question to Mr. Cabe, side of partnership with China. “....Don’t mess with us. (China)”. Why is China
messing with Philippine and Taiwanese sovereignty, not to mention bullying in the South China Sea
and other international waters?

[pepsee]

The 'lock-up' of tennis player Peng Shuai is a reminder that China is a fragile superpower, citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is still in a Chinese prison for reporting from Wuhan during the height of the city's coronavirus outbreak in 2020? Her family says she is on a hunger strike, and she is near death. All calls for her release have gone unheeded. Much of the world has condemned China’s detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

[magnetron]

Technology has One language its called Science and it is an International language .

[milaong]

Probably Shirley Yu would prefer to be on the adversary side, that is why she has to shout to convince herself and everybody of her partner stance. Lol

[leeseekwan]

Shirley yu's line of argument would have find resonance with the audience if the latter are nationalistic Chinese. A total disservice to her debating team.

[ricellisfrost]

Shirley Yu is terrifying - she's all over the place, sometimes arguing against herself!
For Shirley Yu, economics is the measure of all things, and in such absolute terms, no middle ground.
She would be a good fit on Trump's cabinet.

[tseringphuntsok]

Full of CCP's 50 cent army in comment section.

[rickp]

I have sold all my stocks that are connected with China CCP ! It's high time we as a country do the same...I will not dismiss their attack on human rights!

[janklaas]

🇺🇳58:59
We democraties should NOT negotiate with terorists, but protect them people in risky places so they can't be kidnapped and NOT do trade with (wannabe) dictatorschips and country's that not respect human rights.

[yijiancai]

I didn't watch the video 'cause I know it's a waste of time.
As a Chinese here's my point: I don't know whether my country will take the "dominating" role as the current US, or create a multipolar world as our leader stated.
One thing I'm 100% sure is that China will never BE dominated by the west again like in the 19th century. And I think this is what some western people are really afraid of and why they are having these debates. Your country (and the US) was strengthend through war, colonism, looting and stealing. Even in the 21st century, you are not able to get rid of the mindset of having superiority over Asian and African people. This indeed is a question and should be debated by your people.
China on the other hand, as I said, will take notes of the past, learn from it and progress like no other. As for how much and what we'll learn and use, I do not know. Hegemony and colonism are western things that makes the world suffer and no Chinese will like it. So I hope they will not go down that path but again, I believe they have figured out better ways to adopt the new age. So for this topic, is probably important to you, but not the subject itself. BTW, no one would reject real tangible cooperations. So opportunities are there, and China has plenty now. Personal Opinions.