The U.S. Needs to Get Out of the Way on China
“Is it a hawkish thing for Trump?”
This irritating little sentence—or variations of it—has been the soundtrack of my life for the past three years. And not a good soundtrack. More like the chorus of “Macarena” played loudly on a long-neglected violin. By a child. On repeat.
This dirge hit my ears over and over again in early 2020 while I was recruiting MPs in several countries to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). The idea of IPAC is to build cross-party alliances around the world, with a view to pushing for coordinated policy reform.
Nearly everywhere, and especially on the European left, the anti-Trump chorus echoed along the halls of the world’s parliaments.… Seguir leyendo »