He continued, noting U.S. policy towards China ought to “encourage China’s rise”:
“We need to strike a middle course – one that encourages China’s rise in a manner consistent with an open, fair, rules-based, regional order. This will require care and prudence and strategic foresight, and maybe even more basically it will require sustained attention. It may not have escaped your notice that these are not in ample supply in Washington right now.”
Later in the lecture, Sullivan noted the U.S. and China relationship needs to be broader than bilateral ties, noting “it needs to be about our ties to the region that create an environment more conducive to a peaceful and positive-sum Chinese rise.”
Sullivan’s comments are not far off from his potential boss, as Biden said in 2011:
“I’ve held the view for so many years and continue to hold the view that a rising China is a positive development.”
Get your Rosetta Stone now boys.
“We need to strike a middle course – one that encourages China’s rise in a manner consistent with an open, fair, rules-based, regional order. This will require care and prudence and strategic foresight, and maybe even more basically it will require sustained attention. It may not have escaped your notice that these are not in ample supply in Washington right now.”
Later in the lecture, Sullivan noted the U.S. and China relationship needs to be broader than bilateral ties, noting “it needs to be about our ties to the region that create an environment more conducive to a peaceful and positive-sum Chinese rise.”
Sullivan’s comments are not far off from his potential boss, as Biden said in 2011:
“I’ve held the view for so many years and continue to hold the view that a rising China is a positive development.”
Get your Rosetta Stone now boys.