The United States has realised it cannot keep trying to police the whole world, argues Victor Gao, the vice president of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing. Gao tells host Steve Clemons that improved China-US relations are inevitable although he warns that some American policymakers still view China as the number one threat and Chinese officials never underestimate what American neofascists will cook up next.
In economic relations. In military relations. In international relations. Across every dimension, Canada inched closer and closer to the US. In part, we did that because American leaders asked us to. In part, we did it because it was good for us to be tightly tied to the world's-and history's-richest and most powerful nation. We got security and prosperity without the burdens of independence and charting our own course.