https://www.scmp.com/rss/506728/feed Michael Swaine is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies. Formerly a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, Swaine is a specialist in Chinese defence and foreign policy, US-China relations, and East Asian international relations. He has authored and edited more than a dozen books and monographs and many journal articles and book chapters in these areas, directs several... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com US President Donald Trump’s decision to close the Houston consulate appears to be another step in his administration’s plan to paint China as an existential threat to bolster his re-election prospects. The move is in keeping with his tendency to justify a Cold War-like global posture towards Beijing accompanied by crude, zero-sum policies supposedly needed to distract Americans from their mounting troubles at home and to justify ever larger defence budgets. I hope the American people do not fall... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3095030/why-world-needs-saner-us-approach-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3095030/why-world-needs-saner-us-approach-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Jul 2020 23:00:17 +0000