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Letters | When it comes to China, America must listen to Asia
- Readers discuss US-China tensions, the talk of reopening the border with the mainland, the green options of quarantine hotel guests in Hong Kong and cyberbullying
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No good will come of US-China conflict, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said at the Aspen Security Forum (“Neither US nor China can put each other down, says Singapore’s PM Lee”, August 3).
Faced with a United States pushing its allies to jump on the anti-China bandwagon, some will speak up quietly and others will just run with the momentum. However, is it wise for the US to continue like this in the post-Trump era?
It is not China’s aggression that the world is seeing. Instead, it is the US trying to rally its traditional allies to contain China.
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China has been expanding overseas investment and trade and rolling out the Belt and Road Initiative. By 2030, belt and road projects could help lift millions of people out of extreme poverty and tens of millions out of moderate poverty across the world, President Xi Jinping said in April.
It is up to wise leaders to tell US President Joe Biden to stop promoting a China containment agenda and using others to maintain American hegemony.
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At the United Nations in June, several member states spoke up against interference in China’s affairs in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet after a group of Western countries led by Canada released a statement on Xinjiang. Even US business groups have asked Biden to rethink his China policy.
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