Richard Maude on excellent form explaining why China won’t engage on "guardrails" — and thus that "competition with guardrails" ain't going to work. Says AUS + SEA nations et al to call China out on this. It's behind the paywall. Some quotes 🧵 afr.com/policy/foreign…
Beijing rejects even the foundational premise of Washington’s position – that the US and China can get along while also competing toughly. Beijing calls for a “different kind of great power relationship”, one that demands parity and respect for China and all its “core interests”.
@jamescrabtree What US means when it talks about guardrails.
@jamescrabtree China did take Miley’s call tho during the coup. useful idiots get played like that.
@jamescrabtree The root problem is US provocation. Guardrails are simply a tool for the US to maximize its provocation and play with fire without getting burned. China will never allow such "guardrails". So a useless article.
@jamescrabtree Intervening in US's hysterical anti-China policies like trying to walk back the One-China Policy is beyond imagining, however.
@jamescrabtree Just start impounding their “civilian” fishing fleets when they are in international waters and claim they are in US waters due to a map mistake. Two can play at that game.
@jamescrabtree the guardrail is the exisiting united nation charter, and exisiting bilateral agreements, not something that legitimate the US aggression.