Experts: Xi-Biden Meeting Sends Positive Signal but Hard Nuts Will Need to Be Cracked
The meeting was a positive step, but no indication of real change.
The meeting was a positive step, but no indication of real change.
We will know in the next weeks the final count of seats, but even if Republicans win a small majority in the House of Representatives, they won’t be able to govern. They will instead try to muck up governance to mess with the Democratic president.
Demand is changing, not disappearing. The products people want, where and how they want to buy them, purchase motivators, and the continued torrid growth of e-commerce and integrated retail should all be subject to review and improvement.
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.