Midterm Elections: Nothing Can Be Changed
It should not be surprising that the midterm results are, at best, indecisive because they reflect the status of an increasingly divided and broken American political framework marred by partisan conflict.
It should not be surprising that the midterm results are, at best, indecisive because they reflect the status of an increasingly divided and broken American political framework marred by partisan conflict.
China’s plan for the greening of the Belt and Road Initiative offers an explicit and clear direction for all key stakeholders to materialize the related goals based on their respective positions and strengths.
The Catalogue of Industries for Encouraging Foreign Investment (2022 Version) will help lift the level of opening up and also optimize foreign investment structures, consequently boosting foreign investor expectations and confidence in their China-based business.
The West seems to be regressing to the mercantilist bloc system of the colonial era. This time, however, there is only one bloc, where the former colonial masters have assembled as vassals of a single hegemon, with the rest of the world looking on from the outside.
If the key players fail to sit down together and talk things over for a peaceful world, it would be a ‘gross betrayal of the next generations to come and none of us would want that on our conscience.’
There are indeed serious deviations in the American policymakers’ understanding of the current international situation, the U.S. status in the world, China-U.S. relations and other major issues.
On the one hand, this is an existential defense mechanism, psychologically speaking. On the other hand, many Americans understand their interests align substantially with American hegemony, and therefore, there is an anti-China alignment.
Openness promotes economic development; open economies can specialize and trade with each other.
For the U.S., as the congressional insider trading scandals keep coming, accompanied by wide media coverage turning the entire house inside out, this may be an opportunity to start reversing the decline of politics’ ethical standards.
American politics is not so much a system for change or the voice of the people as it is a means to consolidate the status quo to preserve certain interests. But as people’s patience and tolerance of it wears thin, the constitutional order of the U.S. will be subject to more and more tests in the years to come.
Brazil is a partner that China works with in advancing the Global Development Initiative. The bilateral cooperation should not be limited to trade and investment, but it’s also important for the two to jointly improve global governance.
Trump activists are attempting a new kind of neo-colonialism whereby DC-funded political professionals try to enact their corporatist will on foreign countries.