James McGregor | US-China Relations Pt. 2, The Last 4 Years & The Next 4 Years

<p><strong>Topics Discussed and Key Points:</strong></p><p>●      An autopsy of the Trump administration with regard to U.S.-China policy</p><p>●      Why the conversation around China has changed dramatically in recent years</p><p>●      Does China just not care how it is perceived globally?</p><p>●      The secretive nature of the CCP</p><p>●      Is there more transparency between the U.S. government and citizens today?</p><p>●      What to expect from U.S.-China relations during the Biden administration</p><p>●      How technology and security will fare throughout the Biden administration</p><p>●      Has there been an increase in racial tensions around Asian-Americans?</p><p>●      New “big players” to watch out for in the U.S.-China story</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Episode Summary:</strong></p><p>Today on The Negotiation, we speak with James McGregor, author, journalist, and Chairman of APCO Worldwide, Greater China.</p><p>To James, the U.S. has “changed the conversation on China, globally.” Since China had “overreached and gone too far”, particularly following the rise of Xi Jinping to power, pushback would have been inevitable even if Hillary Clinton was elected.</p><p>One of Trump’s successes was to have brought attention to China’s activities in Xinjiang via sanctions and the blocking of imports. However, James believes that Trump left U.S.-China relations in a messy state that Biden now has to clean up, pointing to Trump’s mercantilist policies that address none of the major problems between the two countries.</p><p>China may have seen America and Western Europe as experiencing “inexorable decline” in the last couple of decades, especially after the Global Financial Crisis, of which China was spared—just as it was spared from the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, for that matter. These observations and more may have led China to believe that its time had come to become a global superpower.</p><p>“China considers themselves a great country and that it’s up to us to realize that,” says