Fair analysis on US-China ties

By Tom Plate An important new report out of the world-famous policy sweatshop known as the RAND Corporation (a major U.S. bicoastal think tank) at least tries for a fair and sensible analysis. For this analysis alone, given the almost rancid mood in the United States about China these days (and to some extent, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lots of things Chinese), the government of Xi Jinping is not going to get a fairer shake from America’s political-military establishment than RAND’S “China’s Quest for Global Supremacy.” The background is this situation: during the Group of Seven (G7) talkathon (the…