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In calling out China as an aggressor both in Ladakh and Taiwan, the
Trump administration is not only offering support to its key partners in
Indo-Pacific but also laying foundation to long term relationships with
the middle-powers in the region.To get more China latest news, you can visit shine news official website.
While not much has come out of the path-breaking October 6 QUAD security dialogue in public domain, Hindustan Times learns that China was indeed the elephant in the room and its actions whether in Ladakh, Taiwan, South China Sea or Senkaku Islands were sombrely assessed to understand the new rising global power. That the QUAD partners chose to hold a physical meeting with Australian foreign minister Marise Payne going into a 14-day mandatory quarantine after her return from Tokyo, indicates the seriousness of the dialogue. It is quite evident that the dialogue is there to stay with all the four democracies quite comfortable with each other even though each has a different score to settle with Beijing. If Ladakh’s military standoff is a threat to India, the Chinese aggression on Taiwan are a matter of serious concern to both Japan and US with Australian at the receiving end on trade issue with Beijing.
While former US president Barack Obama’s much promised Asian pivot never fructified, the Trump administration has been able to open diplomatic doors in the Indo-Pacific with QUAD partners and key ASEAN nations. In contrast, Beijing’s wolf warrior diplomacy has hardly yielded any friends except for client states like Pakistan, Cambodia and North Korea. Even though China is the second largest importer of defence hardware from Russia, the latter is deeply suspicious of Beijing’s intrusion into Moscow’s traditional area of influence like in Central Asia, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and continuing friction with an old and firm ally India. New Delhi is the largest importer of Russian defence equipment.
To complicate matters, China has expressed concern over Russia supplying S-400 missile system to India while at the same time asking for the latest S-500 missile system to protect its borders. While the range of S-400 system is 400 kilometres, the S-500 has 600-kilometre range and it is not difficult now to fathom China’s adversaries across land and sea.
While India, Japan and Australia do have a power differential with China, events of the past eight months have fundamentally changed the relationship of QUAD partners with Beijing. Even if there is a change of administration in US next month, America has taken a 180 degree turn from the days of Richard Nixon-Mao Zedong bonhomie. The Chinese aggression in Ladakh in May this year has ensured that informal dialogue diplomacy at the apex level has come to an end for a long time to come with India not afraid to name the adversary and stand up to it. The QUAD meeting made it clear that Japan under Yoshihide Suga and Australia under Scot Morrison have no intentions of succumbing to Chinese pressure.
Under the circumstances, it won’t be surprising if India invites Australia for the Malabar naval exercise in Bay of Bengal next month with Japan and US being other participants. China has only itself to blame for pushing the QUAD partners to join hands.
While not much has come out of the path-breaking October 6 QUAD security dialogue in public domain, Hindustan Times learns that China was indeed the elephant in the room and its actions whether in Ladakh, Taiwan, South China Sea or Senkaku Islands were sombrely assessed to understand the new rising global power. That the QUAD partners chose to hold a physical meeting with Australian foreign minister Marise Payne going into a 14-day mandatory quarantine after her return from Tokyo, indicates the seriousness of the dialogue. It is quite evident that the dialogue is there to stay with all the four democracies quite comfortable with each other even though each has a different score to settle with Beijing. If Ladakh’s military standoff is a threat to India, the Chinese aggression on Taiwan are a matter of serious concern to both Japan and US with Australian at the receiving end on trade issue with Beijing.
While former US president Barack Obama’s much promised Asian pivot never fructified, the Trump administration has been able to open diplomatic doors in the Indo-Pacific with QUAD partners and key ASEAN nations. In contrast, Beijing’s wolf warrior diplomacy has hardly yielded any friends except for client states like Pakistan, Cambodia and North Korea. Even though China is the second largest importer of defence hardware from Russia, the latter is deeply suspicious of Beijing’s intrusion into Moscow’s traditional area of influence like in Central Asia, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and continuing friction with an old and firm ally India. New Delhi is the largest importer of Russian defence equipment.
To complicate matters, China has expressed concern over Russia supplying S-400 missile system to India while at the same time asking for the latest S-500 missile system to protect its borders. While the range of S-400 system is 400 kilometres, the S-500 has 600-kilometre range and it is not difficult now to fathom China’s adversaries across land and sea.
While India, Japan and Australia do have a power differential with China, events of the past eight months have fundamentally changed the relationship of QUAD partners with Beijing. Even if there is a change of administration in US next month, America has taken a 180 degree turn from the days of Richard Nixon-Mao Zedong bonhomie. The Chinese aggression in Ladakh in May this year has ensured that informal dialogue diplomacy at the apex level has come to an end for a long time to come with India not afraid to name the adversary and stand up to it. The QUAD meeting made it clear that Japan under Yoshihide Suga and Australia under Scot Morrison have no intentions of succumbing to Chinese pressure.
Under the circumstances, it won’t be surprising if India invites Australia for the Malabar naval exercise in Bay of Bengal next month with Japan and US being other participants. China has only itself to blame for pushing the QUAD partners to join hands.
China is becoming a hot-button issue among Republicans vying for Georgia’s Senate seat in a special election.To get more China news, you can visit shine news official website.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Rep. Doug Collins are both aligning with President Trump and his tough talk about President Xi Jinping's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
If China “wants to be a world power, they have to act like a world power in all ways,” Collins told Fox News.
The fast-spreading coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has infected 7.6 million Americans and killed 212,800, more than in any other country in the world. Lockdowns aimed at slowing the disease resulted in trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S. economy and the sharpest slowdown of the post-World War II era.
“We have to hold China accountable and make sure that this never happens again,” said Loeffler, a career businesswoman appointed to her seat by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.To do so, the first-term senator has backed several bills that reduce America’s reliance on China for the production of pharmaceuticals and other key manufacturing and voted in favor of delisting foreign companies from U.S. exchanges if they fail to comply with audit requests for three years.
She has also voted in favor of numerous other bills that toughen the U.S. stance against Beijing. Collins, however, argues that Loeffler has a different view when it comes to her own bank account.
The incumbent senator is “talking about holding China accountable, but yet when she actually has the ability to do so, which is her husband and all delisting 10 state-owned Chinese companies from the New York Stock Exchange, they refuse,” he said.
Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is the founder and CEO of NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange. The NYSE is the only U.S. exchange to list companies in which the China Communist Party owns a stake of at least 30%. Those 10 companies command more than $400 billion of market value.Collins told Fox News that if Loeffler were serious about “holding China accountable,” she would cosponsor the COVID-19 Accountability Act that he introduced in the House and Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham brought up in the Senate.
The bill calls for Chinese companies that are owned by the CCP to be delisted from U.S. stock exchanges, choking access to U.S capital markets. Collins' opponent points out that the case isn't that simple.
"While Senator Loeffler has been fighting every day to hold China accountable, Doug Collins has been holding up a bill in the House -- passed by the Senate -- that would delist Chinese companies,” said Loeffler communications director Stephen Lawson. “Why is he covering for them?"
In addition to introducing the COVID-19 Accountability Act, Collins has also backed a number of other actions against Beijing.
China has to be able to “work on this world stage and in their trade policy, especially from a Georgia perspective, they've got to have trade policies for agriculture and other things that actually work for both sides,” he said.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Rep. Doug Collins are both aligning with President Trump and his tough talk about President Xi Jinping's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
If China “wants to be a world power, they have to act like a world power in all ways,” Collins told Fox News.
The fast-spreading coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has infected 7.6 million Americans and killed 212,800, more than in any other country in the world. Lockdowns aimed at slowing the disease resulted in trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S. economy and the sharpest slowdown of the post-World War II era.
“We have to hold China accountable and make sure that this never happens again,” said Loeffler, a career businesswoman appointed to her seat by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.To do so, the first-term senator has backed several bills that reduce America’s reliance on China for the production of pharmaceuticals and other key manufacturing and voted in favor of delisting foreign companies from U.S. exchanges if they fail to comply with audit requests for three years.
She has also voted in favor of numerous other bills that toughen the U.S. stance against Beijing. Collins, however, argues that Loeffler has a different view when it comes to her own bank account.
The incumbent senator is “talking about holding China accountable, but yet when she actually has the ability to do so, which is her husband and all delisting 10 state-owned Chinese companies from the New York Stock Exchange, they refuse,” he said.
Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is the founder and CEO of NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange. The NYSE is the only U.S. exchange to list companies in which the China Communist Party owns a stake of at least 30%. Those 10 companies command more than $400 billion of market value.Collins told Fox News that if Loeffler were serious about “holding China accountable,” she would cosponsor the COVID-19 Accountability Act that he introduced in the House and Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham brought up in the Senate.
The bill calls for Chinese companies that are owned by the CCP to be delisted from U.S. stock exchanges, choking access to U.S capital markets. Collins' opponent points out that the case isn't that simple.
"While Senator Loeffler has been fighting every day to hold China accountable, Doug Collins has been holding up a bill in the House -- passed by the Senate -- that would delist Chinese companies,” said Loeffler communications director Stephen Lawson. “Why is he covering for them?"
In addition to introducing the COVID-19 Accountability Act, Collins has also backed a number of other actions against Beijing.
China has to be able to “work on this world stage and in their trade policy, especially from a Georgia perspective, they've got to have trade policies for agriculture and other things that actually work for both sides,” he said.