Why the US Needs a Shift in Its China Strategy

Elizabeth Economy, Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses the need for the United States to rethink the approach to competition with China and provides insight into how the Chinese people really feel about their leader, Xi Jinping. Elizabeth speaks with Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney on Bloomberg Radio.

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[godzillamothra]

When the US talked about engagement, it means obey us if you want to live in peace. Sorry, bullying works if you deal with banana republic, not China or Russia.

[miralu]

What she said is globalization = Americanization = following the orders of the United States.

[ChinaCoachLeBlanc]

On the ground in china the people are excited, happy, heavily support the govt...and are all living better every year..

[mysticalwind]

The US needs to get along with the rest of the world. It's really that simple
Anything that this lady says is complete nonsense.

[_Negra_Arroyo_Lane]

LMFAO. Engagement = everyone in the world must bow down to America? WTF?

[Jerry-iiyp]

Which countries in the world wouldn’t like to have its own vision, its own norms, its own value and its own interests? 😂

[xing]

If some urban Chinese are unhappy, why is it a business of the US? Let the Chinese deal with it. Why can't the Americans just leave other countries alone? The Chinese do not impose their ideas on us, why must we always crusade against others who may think differently?

[JohnSmith-pwyw]

No matter what the USA wants, if 1.5 billion people wants to better themselves peacefully. No one can stop them. Wake up.

[danielli]

US visions for the world: all tried and all were bullied and robbed. The world need something new.

[amunra]

All empires fall-the US is no different

[prajnasamadhi]

What's wrong with China wants to have its own vision, and values?
It's that a given in international relations?

[X-H-Wu]

If Americans think China is threatening them, why not just decouple and leave China alone and let China go its own way? Why Americans always want to subdue China to maintain its hegemony status? China has the absolute right to grow strong.

[bobdoe]

Sounds like repeat of Cold War strategies 😂

[exduzz]

If you look at the polls, cpc has 95.5% approval rating at the national level. 13 year Harvard poll from 2003-2016. Every other western poll has the same numbers and proves this is the mainstream view. Before you go and say "Chinese cannot disapprove", local government only had around 11% or something. Same as us congress numbers. But at national level, it's obvious most Chinese approve of the direction and development and running of the country. Local issues they are more lacking and discontent but those are local issues and not "Chinese want to overthrow the gov because no free speech" or "they hate xi". It's obvious Xi is popular and well supported. No leader who is hated will be leader for long. That's not how China works! Why would cpc keep a hated leader or incompetent one? They wouldn't. It would only hurt themselves and the party and country, and it would be stupid. Chinese aren't stupid else they would not keep rising like they are.

Look up latana democracy index poll 2022-2023 etc. China ranks first in democracy index. Most Chinese think they have the right amount of democracy and most Chinese think they are a democracy. Compare with USA, it's or any other country in the world. China comes out first on most democracy index and approval ratings.

It's not a secret. She is obviously biased and talking about "under the surface" there is possibly discontent. Lol. In other words she is just making shit up with zero numbers or polls to back up her anti china views. And this is supposed to be some china expert? Please.

[datianlongan]

We won't learn if we continue to believe we are better & smarter than others. Instead, we should thank China for the wakeup calls and listen with humility to what they have to say. I would question Economy's insight of Chinese discontentment of their government. According the article "What the West Gets Wrong About China" in the Harvard Business Review, "Many Chinese believe that the country’s recent economic achievements have actually come about because of, not despite, China’s authoritarian form of government."

[ianthesiow]

❤😢.. 👉🏻👉🏼👉🏽 America calls it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on... Why the double standard? Confused... Please enlighten. Genuine question...


Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
2014 - 2022 - 9 countries yet to verify.
Pakistan 2022 *
Haiti 2022 *
Israel 2023
Niger 2023

[ntokozolugogo]

Forget about Africa, we don't want colonialism here

[ntokozolugogo]

Do Americans have freedom that you busy preaching to the world

[raymondchin]

Restart American Slavery and colonialism. What good have you done?

[hyuxion]

Consider the manufacturing output and industrial indices for sectors like steel, concrete, electricity, car manufacturing, and shipping. It's clear from these metrics which nation is the leading global power.