Keyu Jin: preference

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…That’s diplomacy. We have an absence of diplomacy. But you’re absolutely right, there needs to be respect. The Chinese at least really care about respect. And I wish there was just a bit more cultural fluency, and I think a lot of things would be so much easier between the two countries, just understanding that because you can actually push China to do a lot of things, all within reason that would work in favor of the US, but understand that respect is vitally important. Face-saving is very, very, very important. To what degree, what Xi Jinping says and what they’re putting out there in the world represents the truth? So he has a whole way of being of like, “Let’s de-escalate. Let’s all make good deals together. Almost like, let’s be friends.” Modi a little bit has a similar way of being like, “Let’s just…” And the implied thing is, forgive the French, but if you fuck with us, we won’t be nice, but let’s just all be nice together. Is he speaking the truth?…

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