[Debate topic] What should our foreign policy with China *not* be?
I was trying to find a way to start a discussion on this issue that’s more from from scratch, as opposed to starting with a well developed framework, and the best I thought of today was to try and start talking what I don't want our policy with China to be.
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I don’t want it to be anti Chinese. That won’t help long term, and they don’t deserve it.
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I don’t want to seriously destabilize or fracture China, as the chaos, human suffering, and blow back from that could be extreme.
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I don’t want to assume that either peace or war are inevitable.
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I don’t want to rest policy on negative assumptions that could be prejudiced or lead to underestimation.
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I also don’t want us to be too afraid to act for us to have goals or make things happen.
What about you? What do you NOT want our China policy to be?
Posted Jul 1, 2021, 12:07 AM UTC