History at a Turning Point: Pandemic, Ukraine and the Changing Relations between China, Europe, U.S.

With 2022, we have entered the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, that has prompted many to pronounce the end of globalization. Amid Washington's drive to decouple from China economically and technologically, the Ukraine conflict has produced a rupture in the global energy and food supply chains as well as the European balance of power. From the globalist elites at Davis to populists at the ballot box, people from all corners of the world are grappling with the key issues in the great power relations between China, America, and Europe and the global implications.

With the outcome of Russia's invasion of Ukraine yet to come, how can we use history to help inform and illuminate the present and the choices and challenges facing the world? This program, as part of CCG 8th China and Globalization Forum, features Prof. Niall Ferguson, one of the most brilliant historians of our age, and his insights on the key issues of the day.

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A stubborn and offended U.S. administration overreacted to display its strength of an embellished sense of weakness and lack of capability and resolve. The US has no future-oriented coexisting strategy that could defuse the current confrontation.
Pragmatic Moscow and Beijing combined with understanding of incoherent errors of US foreign policy. The US must understand current global security demands are a strategic process, with confident Russia, China and India needing dialogue face-to-face on an equal footing.
China’s Crimes against the USA is only of her peaceful rise. That is only for a perceived anxiety that China may challenge American hegemonic power, influence, and interests, and may attempt to erode American security and prosperity.
The Biden administration has increased its aggressive posture against China and adopted a confrontational policy toward her. Current US foreign policy goals toward China is to hold back her high-tech advancement. These restrictions aim to slow China’s economy and modernization and prevent China's access to high-tech chips.
Even so far, China has responded to American challenges in a more constructive, peaceful, and non-confrontational manner. Indeed, these are a strategic challenge to mitigate a possible risk of war and lessen possible national security risks for China. Overcoming such pressure is an existential challenge. The US is not shy to differ on any opinion or reasoning, without any moral or logical argument.
The crisis of American power under Biden's presidency filled with an abject failure in combating the US created chaos in the international arena that hinder America's effort of regaining the world’s respect, and rheostat progressively diminishing his competitors' fear. No way US could dictate only and retune his waning.