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Senior Research Fellow at @quincyinst for Responsible Statecraft

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1 year
Just to prove that there is literally no limit to the insane frenzy of some so-called expert commentators on China, there is this. Gordon has been spouting nonsense about China for years, but this makes you genuinely wonder about his mental health.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
@teddyboylocsin Just to be clear, you are the Foreign Secretary of the Philippine Government, correct? That usually means the chief diplomat. Your job is to defend your nation’s interests by using diplomacy, not the language of a school boy. This is embarrassing for you and your country.
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
Yet another truly dangerous argument, this one based on a totally bizarre notion, that the US would attack China with nuclear weapons if BJ attacked Taiwan conventionally. Why would anyone believe the U.S. would trade US cities for Taiwan? Let’s get real.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
It is with enormous sadness that I convey the news that Ezra Vogel, stellar scholar of China and Japan, mentor, colleague,and friend passed away today in Mt. Auburn hospital in Cambridge. As with so many others, Ezra was a huge figure in my life from the time I was a graduate...
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
Pelosi visiting Taiwan is such a bad idea it’s hard to know where to begin in criticizing it. She is a senior member of the United States government. There is no upside to such a visit and only downsides. Biden shld oppose this but he dares not, eh?
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
What a sad, pathetic creature he is. Flailing around, obsessed with blaming China for everything, trying desperately to distract the public from our own self-induced problems. Really sad.
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Peter Navarro blames China for the arson and looting
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Pompeo is about the worst person to be doing this, next to Navarro. He has shown that he has zero understanding of China, and is mostly a polemicist. But he probably thinks that he has shown the Chinese how tough he is n can make demands. Good luck.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
All one can say is that Steve Bannon suffers from some kind of mental illness. He links the death of George Floyd to China. W/out Trump, he would have remained on the extreme fringe w/ nutty persons like Alex Jones.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
““China has incredible and ethical scientists, many of whom in the early stages of the pandemic came out to say that they suspected that this was a lab leak,” Pottinger said.” Really? Can anyone point me to a source that confirms this?
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
“...Washington has interfered in elections, sponsored coups, bombed nations, intervened in civil wars, invaded countries, supported dictators...funded killers, and endorsed repression....Imagine the...damages if everyone harmed by the U.S. sued Americans.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
The article starts by trying to suggest that both sides are equally to blame for the disaster we’re witnessing. But the bulk of the piece shows the reality that the rogue USG is driving it. I very much hope the Chinese don’t take the bait.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
I have been told that Pelosi has said she will only not go 2 TW if Biden publicly discourages her n she can blame him. Anyone else heard this? Sounds like Pelosi. Why can’t they both confer n conclude it’s not a good idea? Why the blame game, if true?
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
"We've got to hold China accountable," DeSantis said. "How Americans view them will never be the same. They’ve never been popular as a country here." It is truly amazing how utterly disgusting some American officials can be.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
Why do almost all W. journalists, including those w/ experience, fail 2 mention that TW was in fact incorporated into CN in the 1880s n that both the ROC n PRC regard it as part of CN? Instead, they depict the PRC stance as if it came out of nowhere...
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Sent by a friend.
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
@USAmbJapan Not sure why the US ambassador to Japan, one of the leading official faces of the nation to the world, stoops to such language to no apparent good end. Does he feel that his pal the prez has done something similar re XJP so why not? Two such bad moves don’t make a good one.
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
CN ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai, widely respected in DC, explicitly disavows the ridiculous notion pushed by the PRC that the virus originated in US weapons labs. This reflects real courage and should be met with statements by US officials rejecting..
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
IMO another case of the NYT doing a disservice 2 its readers in reporting on the TW situation. The entire framing of this story is of BJ as the only independent variable driving a possible clash over TW. There is a near-zero mention by the authors of...
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Michael D. Swaine
1 month
This is such a simplistic distortion of the complex reality of China’s global economic behavior that I am genuinely surprised FA published it. As usual, Aaron begins w/ his purely ideological assumption that BJ’s primary goal is to subjugate the world..1/
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
@zhang_heqing I seem to remember a massive Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979, which was not preceded by any Vietnamese attack on CN. Deng Xiaoping explicitly said that it was intended to "teach Vietnam a lesson." And then there was the Chendao island attack on Soviet forces in 1968, yes?
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
Nations’ problem-solving methods.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Just to be clear everyone: Ratcliff’s diatribe is almost certainly not an IC assessment, but his own attempt to follow the Pompeo/White House campaign to scare Americans and lock in a Cold War orientation toward CN that will not serve US interests.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Pompeo is supposed to be the top diplomat, but he is anything but. There is no hint, zero, in this speech (basically an ideological rant) that indicates any awareness of what it means to be a diplomat in a complex world. He is really an evangelist.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
@SecPompeo Maybe viruses have been coming out of Asia and China because of the size of the populations and the lower level of development? So what is the point of this broad-brush demonization, other than to distract from the abysmal US track record of handling the virus?
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
If you remember only one point from my essay, let it be this: If the US guts the One CN policy by treating TW as a sovereign state n security ally, Beijing will employ military force to prevent the island’s separation, EVEN IF THE US IS LIKELY TO WIN….1/
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
This is a foolish n dangerous response by the ROC government. It will absolutely reinforce the view in BJ n elsewhere that the Tsai government is strongly pushing 4 every possible way 2 end the US 1 CN policy. That is not in TW’s interest.
@MOFA_Taiwan
外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼
4 years
I'm grateful to @SecPompeo & @StateDept for lifting restrictions unnecessarily limiting our engagements these past years. I'm also thankful for strong bipartisan support in Congress for the #Taiwan 🇹🇼 Assurance Act, which advocates a review of prior guidelines. The closer ... 1/2
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
via @NYTOpinion The mainstream US media never seems 2 tire of printing essentially the same piece saying that the US is desperately weak militarily in Asia n must double down 2 maintain stability. This reads like it came out of DoD public relations…1/
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
Another indication of how low the US administration has sunk, to the level of crass propaganda efforts to deepen the blame game w/ Beijing in a race to the bottom. We are so much better than this. We deserve a real government, not this pettiness.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
Read the detailed and systematic take-down of the notion that evidence is mounting for the lab leak theory. Ling methodically takes apart that argument n also reinforces the science-based belief that it more likely appeared in nature. Please RT.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
The US is trying the re-engage BJ after a string of mutually undiplomatic name-calling and posturing incidents. BJ is having none of it and some in the US say, “Oh, they’ll get over it. They always protest but then come back.” Yes, probably true, until it isn’t. Then what?
@QuincyInst
Quincy Institute
2 years
“A deepening level of suspicion, vitriol, and finger-pointing dominate almost all [US-China] exchanges, preventing substantive engagement,” QI’s @Dalzell60 tells @michaelvmartina @davidbrunnstrom @Reuters .
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
The worst SecState in history continues his extremist n distorted propaganda. It’s sad to see such an undiplomatic person as the country’s top diplomat. Btw, CN is far from the greatest threat facing the world today. COVID? Climate? US going rogue?
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
What will it take for the WaPo to actually read serious analysts of China’s loan practices and recognize that “debt-trap diplomacy” is largely nonsense. BJ’s loan practices do create problems, but also benefit developing countries. It’s a mixed record.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
Published over three years ago, n signed by 100 international relations and Asia experts and former officials, this remains as an excellent statement of the deep errors of the most strident China hawks and a description of the proper path forward. Pls RT!
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
"Taiwanese officials warned WHO on Dec. 31 that they had seen evidence that the virus could be transmitted human-to-human.” If true, why did TW’s CDC not publicly state this til Jan 15, and when it did, why did they cite WHO? Look at TW CDC reports.
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
After having strengthened defense, Kishida is now seeking to stress the need for diplomacy, pushing back against the “all-deterrence” views of many in Japan and the US. I hope Japan moves further in this direction, aligning w/ other middle powers.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Sorry CNN, but to anyone who has been following this issue, these docs r not the revelation that you claim for them; much of the info provided is not new; mainly shows that bureaucratic ineptitude, local politics, and confusion influenced the early handling of COVID; of more...
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The Lead CNN
4 years
CNN exclusive: Vast trove of leaked documents shows China underreported Covid-19 numbers, took weeks to diagnose new cases and didn’t disclose a December flu spike in Hubei.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
WaPo yet again publishes the usual (can’t we recite these now by heart?) fire-breathing piece on China, this time by one-trick pony John Bolton. For him, the solution to all problems is always the same: forget diplomacy n unleash America’s supposedly…1/
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Michael D. Swaine
6 years
In 45 years of studying and researching China, I have never seen such a determined effort to depict CN as an unmitigated threat. It spans agencies, news organs, and “belief” tanks. It is inaccurate, pernicious, and contrary to US interests. It’s like a virus n very dangerous.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Reality meets fantasy. A detailed explanation of why “debt trap diplomacy” is a myth as applied to Hambantota port in Sri Lanka. It is probably a myth as applied to the BRI and other areas of Chinese economic behavior as well. This is not to say that...
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
Is American Diplomacy with China Dead? This is an absolutely superb essay by Susan Thornton. It should be required reading for every Member of Congress and the media. She effectively rebuts the many arguments in favor of treating CN like an enemy. RT!!
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
So what are the specific concerns? Members of the WHO team say the Chinese did not withhold data nor put pressure on them. Jake implies otherwise. Based on what? A single suspicious NYT story? Seems like more evidence is needed.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
This is about as stupid a move as this deeply stupid administration can make. Has anyone pointed out to the geniuses in the State Department that 90 million Chinese are CCP members, including most Chinese business persons, senior academics, scientists..
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Great article. Well worth reading. I don’t agree w/ every word, but in the main do so. Few people in Washington really probe into the nature and extent of China’s threat to the US. They mainly straight-line capabilities and assume that those...
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Michael D. Swaine
2 months
Yet another, this time more detailed and extensive, argument that if Taiwan falls, the world will lapse into utter chaos. These breathless, utterly hyperbolic views seem designed to build public n elite support for massive increases in defense spending..1/
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
Getting super tired of US officials making various hair-raising comments about PRC policies w/ absolutely ZERO indication, even a hint, that the US might be contributing to the problem viewed. Blinken simply asserts that BJ has “sharply deviated” from...
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Michael D. Swaine
11 months
It is with huge sadness that I report the passing of Jeff Bader, China expert n diplomat extraordinaire and a great friend. Jeff was THE source of wisdom on China policy for the USG over many years and a major voice while at Brookings after his retirement from the government. 1/
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
@SenMarcoRubio Rubio up to his usual fear mongering to scare the American people into pouring more money into defense and treating China as a pariah to be isolated and contained. Forget diplomacy. Forget what most of the rest of the word thinks. This is extreme fifties Cold War rhetoric.
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
If accurate, this is a rather appalling, racist-based assessment of the nature of the Chinese threat. And coming from the State Dept. makes it even worse. Apparently the problem is not CN’s system; it’s Chinese culture? We sink to new lows every day.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
I have been told that Ratner’s speech was approved by the White House. So this was no DoD statement, much less Ratner riffing. The US has now abandoned the 1 CN policy that has kept the peace in the TW strait 4 decades n placed us on a path 2ward conflict.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
What is the evidence for Xi’s supposedly accelerated time plan for TW? There is little if anything in the open sources. Sick of US officials making categorical statements about CN intentions w/out providing much if any real evidence.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
This is closer to a polemic than “news analysis.” I realize that blasting away at China has become a kind of parlor game, but why do erstwhile serious journalists give in to it so readily? I realize the story line is eye catching, but how about trying...
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Best piece on TikTok I’ve read. Fair n balanced. The hysteria is indicative of a general problem w/ the US take on China: assuming the CN r 10 feet tall n responding w/ our own forms of propaganda n authoritarian control, facilitated by a rogue USG.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
Kirby n the WH must be smoking something if they think “nothing has changed” in US TW policy. This issue is not about rights and supposed precedent. It is about where we r TODAY in the relationship n what accumulated changes over time have produced…1/
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
I’ll say this straight up: Trump is endangering this country and the world with his mind-numbingly stupid statements about CN n the coronavirus. He is flat-out ignorant n I suspect pushing this message 4 purely political reasons, at the expense of...
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Well worth reading. US policy toward China needs to drop the hyperbole and rhetoric, including the loose application of loaded terms like genocide, and get down to developing a pragmatic, balanced approach to China that better protects US interests.
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
Here is another deeply dumb move re China/Taiwan from Rubio and Co. He is clueless regarding Taiwan’s history and the nature of US-China relations, but hey who cares! He’s not responsible for anything that happens. A typical feel-good, symbolic action.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
US and Chinese researchers team up for hunt into Covid origins via @FT Despite the COVID propaganda spewing out of USG senior leaders, largely for political purposes, scientists in the US n China are managing to work together, a good sign for the future.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Just keep in mind that this has almost nothing to do with China and almost everything to do with US domestic politics. I hope the Dems understand this and develop a serious China policy, w/out the nonsense.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Just ponder a moment what this says about your government. The leading diplomat is willing to lie through his teeth and then blithely back away from it as if “no harm, no foul.” It seems he will do anything to please The Don and distract the country from DC’s utterly pitiful job.
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Edward Wong
4 years
Pompeo backs down from earlier assertions on “evidence” about an unsubstantiated Wuhan “lab accident” theory. And ABC spoke to an intelligence official who said there’s no signals or human intelligence pointing to a lab accident as the source of outbreak.
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
The report hugely increases, in destabilizing ways, the perceived stakes involved in avoiding conflict over Taiwan and the requirements for maintaining stability. It basically commits the United States to an open-ended, intense arms race with China…1/
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Really superb essay by Rachel on the USG’s mis-use of the “rules-based order” concept and its relation to China. Another example of how many in DC distort concepts 2 serve the goal of opposing BJ. Rachel strikes a more fact-based, balanced stance.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
Boot is not my favorite columnist. But here he is 100% correct. I endorse every word of this. The House China Committee is an exercise in American propaganda, uninterested in providing fact-based analysis of China, it only seeks to frighten and alarm.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
I am delighted to be joining Quincy at the end of the month. As director of the East Asia Program there, I will be committed to developing Quincy into a major voice in the effort to reshape US foreign policy toward greater restraint and responsibility in world affairs....
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Quincy Institute
4 years
We're incredibly excited to welcome four new additions to the QI team this month: @Dalzell60 , @VlahosAtQuincy , @resplinodell , and @AdamNoahWho
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
A strong argument, backed by US polling and obvious need, for the US n CN to cooperate and compete in tackling climate change. Despite a sense of threats from CN, a substantial number of Americans want the 2 countries to cooperate here. This is a major..
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Another sane voice crying in what has become the wilderness of truly mindless demonization efforts undertaken by the USG to further Trump’s political objectives and push us toward a Cold War w/ CN. Ezra is a dean of Asia studies and a treasured mentor.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
“If we are not prepared to accept restrictions on our own actions, we can hardly cry foul when others play by the same rules.” None of this excuses what CN n Russia do, but pretending that the US doesn’t do it, as Rubio n others suggest, is ridiculous.
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
Beyond disgusting. I don’t recognize my country’s government any longer. This is beneath even the worst Trumpists. And China is not wrapping itself in glory either. But the US is actively obstructing global efforts to deal w/ the crisis.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
@ElbridgeColby Hard to grasp this viewpoint Bridge. China’s “extraordinary” buildup is anything but. It is the kind of buildup any undeveloped great power would pursue, especially one that is facing a much stronger, and now clearly competitive / confrontational power, and given its…1/
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
The US saying that this or that maritime claim is illegal does not make it illegal, especially since the USG is not a party to UNCLOS. Statements like this are essentially political, not legal. It would be better to pressure CN on this issue w/ others.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
BJ apologizes and says it’s an off-course civilian balloon. One way to find out is to shoot it down, but that is not the way to deal w/ such a situation. The Congressional hysteria over this is embarrassing, a product of politics n the overall CN hysteria.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Contrast this with the chaos and stupidity that marks the US response at the Federal and many local levels, which follows the idea that one would prefer to be severely ill or dead, or make others ill or dead, than to have one’s freedom infringed upon.
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South China Morning Post
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China's capital is feeling some relief as the emergency level was lowered, following a fortnight of no new #Covid19 cases.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
Great piece on the unreflective herd mentality on demonizing China that dominates in Washington. The author IMO correctly assesses the dangers of such silliness. This isn’t about not pushing back where needed. It’s about grasping the complexity of...
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Being incredibly ignorant of a lot of history, Pompeo probably isn’t even aware what a reference to “being at the gates” means. It refers to the Mongol “hordes” threatening the gates of Vienna. So it’s a bigoted allusion, a kind of slur on Chinese people in general.
@StateDept
Department of State
4 years
. @SecPompeo : We must take off the golden blinders of economic ties and see that the China challenge isn't just at the gates. Europe faces a China challenge, just as the United States does, and just as our South American, African, Middle Eastern, and Asian friends do.
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Michael D. Swaine
5 months
There is no excuse for this kind of provocative, reckless behavior on the part of the Chinese. Was this action taken under direct orders? Even if it occurred in China’s EEZ, it is entirely unjustified.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
“In October last year…the Chinese Air Force conducted 150 flights over Taiwan within a few days in a show of force.” This is false. The PLAAF has not flown over the island of TW.
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
This is a fair and reasonable expression of concern about Xi’s personality cult. Many Chinese intellectuals are also deeply worried about it. It shows a lack of faith in regularized processes and consensus-building w/in the Chinese polity.
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Michael D. Swaine
2 years
BTW, where is the public US statement regarding what was found in the payload of the Chinese balloon that was shot down? This has been promised for some time. What is the holdup? Would be nice to get an update.
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
@USAmbJapan Again, gibberish. Is he trying to get recalled? And why the endless inept comments about XJP, Chinese policies? Does he have no solid experts on staff? China is a big challenge, for sure, but this approach does not serve US interests. Really sad, and dumb.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
Oops. Matt Pottinger, Navarro, and Pompeo, take note. Seems like science is speaking more loudly and clearly than ever against the always extremely shaky Wuhan lab origin speculation.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Hua apparently doesn’t understand that ‘All lives matter” is a slogan used in the US to criticize “Black lives matter.” And it’s rich for any PRC spokesperson 2 criticize the US system. Our social problems aren’t suppressed under a blanket of propaganda and happy talk, as in CN.
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Hua Chunying 华春莹
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All lives matter. We stand firmly with our African friends. We strongly oppose all forms of racial discrimination and inflammatory expressions of racism and hatred.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Here is a clear example of the use of COVID 2 try to distract the US public from the real source of the devastation the virus has wreaked in the US: Trump and self-deluded Americans who think that individual liberty justifies a callous disregard for the safety of others. Pathetic
@StateDept
Department of State
4 years
. @SecPompeo : President @realDonaldTrump is committed to making sure that we hold China accountable for this virus now destroying hundreds of thousands of lives all across the world and billions of dollars in wealth. We will hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for that.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
Yet another disgusting anti-Asian hate crime incident; u can thank all those US leaders n commentators who spew out vile criticisms of “China” over COVID n the unfounded lab leak theory, and employ all sorts of other demonizing rhetoric.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
This argument about CN potentially blocking commerce in the SCS or ECS is ridiculous. Most of that commerce goes to CN n what does not can easily go around those seas. Embarrassing US propaganda.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
The U.S. needs “a new way of thinking” that understands the world is too complex for one country to “achieve such a unilateral superiority...that nobody will be in a position to threaten us.” Sounds like HK sees that US dominance is no longer possible.
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Michael D. Swaine
8 months
The domino theory redux, except this time on steroids. The authors pull out every conceivable worst case scenario for the consequence of even a non-violent Chinese absorption of Taiwan to paint a picture of global collapse. 1/
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
I’m sorry for continuing to Tweet on non-China topics, but this is a fateful moment for our country. The primary threat to our nation at this moment resides in the White House, not in Beijing. We need to defend our democracy, and thereby our image in the world, by condemning...
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Michael D. Swaine
1 year
Worth reading. Former CIA PLA expert Culver rebuts Pottinger and Pomfret’s suggestion that BJ has made a decision to go to war or believes that the PLA is in fine shape to conduct such a war. They replied that they agree BJ has not made such a…1/
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Shows the idiocy and political opportunism of the Republicans in their desperation. TikTok as a national security threat. Well, my 16 year-old daughter and her friends are not amused.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 years
I Tweet this article by Jeffrey Sachs with some trepidation. People seem to have drawn lines and dug in over the issue of genocide in XJ. I would like to hear responsible and constructive commentary on the arguments that Sachs is making. I do not...
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Excellent essay by friend and colleague Mike Lampton. These are the views of the vast majority of China specialists and foreign policy experts I know. I hope that Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken read this and don’t fall into the Trump trap. Please RT.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
I don’t know who if anyone is feeding Cotton this line but it is so ungrounded it’s embarrassing. There is zero evidence folks, ZERO that: a) Beijing knew COVID was deadly n highly infectious n covered it up; and b) WHO helped in such a conspiracy. More efforts at distraction!
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Trump War Room
4 years
WATCH: Senator Tom Cotton explains how China pressured the WHO to cover up the coronavirus. "The WHO has some real answers to provide the world about why they bowed to Chinese pressure...and turned what could have been a local health emergency in Wuhan into a global pandemic."
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
@goldkorn The USG is trying to convince Chinese that it is not against them, only the CCP. But it employs sledge-hammer tariffs, pushes decoupling, presses allies n others 2 reject BRI, n accuses CN of having stolen n cheated it’s way to development. Why wld Chinese believe Pottinger?
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
An EXCELLENT piece by friend n colleague Tom C. He cooly takes apart many myths about CN’s motives n behavior n replaces them w/ a reality-based, balanced assessment. Correctly concludes that, if US attempts a CW w/ CN, it will backfire badly.
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Michael D. Swaine
6 years
Two simple questions: Are the camps voluntary? No. Was due process involved in placing Uighurs in these camps? Almost certainly not. The PRC government can spin this however they wish, but the fact is that this is a gross human rights violation.
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Michael D. Swaine
4 years
Noted China expert (not) McMaster opines on what the Chinese want and how they are getting it. It is the usual mix of some facts w/ much distortion and exaggeration designed to scare the pants off most Americans. Have heard this many times now.
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Michael D. Swaine
3 months
@Copela1492 @ElbridgeColby Thank you Dale. Let me just state the obvious: like many other extreme hawks, Colby is not, repeat not, a China specialist. As such, I think he utterly fails to understand how Chinese (and not just the CCP) look at the U.S. and the world. A few hawks are China experts,…1/
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Michael D. Swaine
5 years
Finally sanity in assessing the bogus “debt-trap diplomacy” n “strategic threat” arguments of the Trumpists regarding the BRI. “Out of more than 3,000 projects..., Hambantota is the only one that has ever been used as evidence for “debt-trap diplomacy.”
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