Taps Coogan – November 13th, 2021
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David Stilwell, the former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and the director of the China Strategic Focus Group at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command recently spoke with China Unscripted about the brewing Cold War between the US and China and particularly about the failures of US foreign policy for decades before the prior administration.
Enjoy the wide ranging and discussion below:
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Basically opening trade with PRC was part of Kissinger Realpolitik policy to counter Soviet Union in mid 70;s. Thereafter, U.S. retailers and manufacturers got hooked on cheap labor for short term profits, including transferring application technology on a mass scale. Essentially Communist China used Capitalistic methods and fear of Soviet Union to help expand their economic and regional power. Now we are struggling to change course without negative consequences.—a difficult task without military confrontation or a Global recession. In meantime lots of blame game and recriminations.
There is a lot of blame to play with
Beyond finding blame for the past, there is no meaningful policy for the future. Recently, the best Henry Kissinger could gruffly mumble is ” we should come up with an understanding with China on the new Global order ” .Talk about a transition from Realpolitik to Fantasypolitik !
Placing blame at the feet of the people who are responsible for decades of obviously naive policy is an important part of the new plan. Accountability is what’s been missing
I was recently talking with a customer about having mold tooling made in China and he revealed that if the Chinese shop makes molds for export the Chinese government pays them a 15% “export fee”. In other words, the Chinese mold shop can “lose” 10% on every project and and still make a 5% profit.
How can anyone compete with that?
By tariffing imports of products treated as such, I suppose