Our friend, Professor ZhiQun Zhu is a professor of political science and international relations at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. In an opinion piece on the HIll on March 24, 2023 he is Questioning the Hawkish China Policy”. The following are quotes from his article:
“Democrats and Republicans disagree on many internal and external affairs, yet they have reached a rare consensus on how to deal with China. In recent years, Congress has passed a number of anti-China bills and the White House has launched a series of confrontational policies towards China.”
“Since last year, the voice of questioning America’s China policy has increased. For example, Jessica Chen Weiss, a political science professor at Cornell University, published an article in the September/October 2022 issue of the Foreign Affairs magazine, exposing the perilous logic of zero-sum competition between the United States and China. In December 2022, The New Yorker published a special feature article, calling Weiss “a professor who challenges the Washington consensus on China.”
“Fareed Zakaria, a well-known Indian-American journalist who also hosts CNN’s current affairs program “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” published an article in The Washington Post on March 2, 2023, criticizing the dangerous “groupthink” of Washington elites on China, as displayed during the first hearing of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party in February 2023.”
Zhu went on to opine that “The policy towards China seems to have been kidnapped by hardliners and warmongers. It is just wrong when politicians and generals are busy predicting when a U.S.-China war will break out, but few are talking about how to avoid conflict and promote peace,…..a more constructive and balanced approach is needed to manage U.S.-China tensions and to serve Americans’ interest.”
As Jeffrey Sachs often admonishes us, “Peace is the Result of Diplomacy, Never of War”.