There's also significant bipartisan opposition to the new consensus on US primacy in Asia & confrontation of China though. It's good Asia policy isn't divided on partisan lines, but primacists should be careful not to use bipartisanship to imply unanimity. Some examples: [THREAD] https://twitter.com/DEricSayers/status/1349191626795712514
Bob Zoellick (R): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/07/trump-is-losing-his-new-cold-war-with-china/
Jim Steinberg (D): https://tnsr.org/2020/01/what-went-wrong-u-s-china-relations-from-tiananmen-to-trump/
Paul Heer (nonpartisan career intelligence officer): https://nationalinterest.org/feature/understanding-us-china-strategic-competition-171014
Hank Paulson (R): https://www.wsj.com/articles/henry-paulson-how-to-fix-our-relationship-with-china-11607943600
Susan Thornton @suea_thornton (career diplomat, served in D & R admins): https://www.afsa.org/american-diplomacy-china-dead
Chairs of bipartisan US-China working group, @RepRickLarsen (D) & @RepLaHood (R): https://washdiplomat.com/two-congressmen-say-easing-u-s-china-tensions-may-require-cooperation/
Signatories on this letter include many from both parties and neither party: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/making-china-a-us-enemy-is-counterproductive/2019/07/02/647d49d0-9bfa-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html
Ryan Haas (D): https://www.brookings.edu/books/stronger-adapting-americas-china-strategy-in-an-age-of-competitive-interdependence/ @ryanl_hass
Jon Huntsman (R): https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-05-12/jon-huntsman-stakes-are-high-us-china-relationship @JonHuntsman
Fareed Zakaria (liberal public intellectual): https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2019-12-06/new-china-scare @FareedZakaria
@DanielLarison (conservative public intellectual and journalist): https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/an-aggressive-china-policy-is-a-recipe-for-more-endless-wars/
@RepJudyChu (D) on the dangers of a Cold War-like approach to China: https://chu.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/rep-judy-chu-how-talk-about-chinas-role-pandemic-racially-sensitive-way
@Doug_Bandow (libertarian): https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/china-isnt-enemy-hawks-shouldnt-turn-it-one
Toby Chow @tobitac and Jake Werner @jwdwerner at @justiceisglobal (progressive):
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-platform-china/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/china-schumer-kanna/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-platform-china/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/china-schumer-kanna/
Finally, at the transpartisan @QuincyInst, @Dalzell60, @JessLee_DC, & I have new a report arguing against the supposed consensus: http://quincyinst.org/EAReport2021
(I've spent most of my life as a Republican, tho the GOP has morphed into something I no longer recognize or affiliate with.)
(I've spent most of my life as a Republican, tho the GOP has morphed into something I no longer recognize or affiliate with.)
Plus many, many other academics, think tankers, activists across political spectrum who oppose this embrace of "great power competition" as a dangerous security dilemma driver & distraction from true existential threats we face: climate chaos, pandemics, domestic dysfunction.
(Folks are welcome to add more such examples to this thread! They are legion.)
This great video book by @EvanFeigenbaum also provides in-depth examples of coordination with China to solve crises across Republican & Democratic administrations: https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/asia/six-crises/
(I know the pro-GPC position doesn't foreclose such coordination, but it's deemphasized.)
(I know the pro-GPC position doesn't foreclose such coordination, but it's deemphasized.)
(Doh, misspelled Ryan's surname above: it's Ryan Hass. My apologies @ryanl_hass.)
Paul Haenle (R) and Ali Wyne: https://carnegietsinghua.org/2021/01/06/part-1-four-principles-to-guide-u.s.-policy-toward-china-pub-83570