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China’s leaders will continue to confront
mounting domestic social, economic, and public
health-related stresses in 2023. If past is prologue,
it is reasonable to expect China’s leaders will
respond by seeking to calm their external
environment to concentrate on challenges at
home. To help counter scrutiny of their domestic
governance record, they will want to present an
image to their people of being afforded dignity
and respect abroad. Nowhere will such symbolism
matter more than in the U.S.-China context.
How China’s leaders are seen to be managing
relations with the United States often is a factor
in how their performance is perceived at home.
Even as the broadly competitive framework of
the US-China relationship is unlikely to change,
opportunities may emerge. For the United States
to advance discrete affirmative priorities with
China in the year ahead, the United States and
China are locked into a long-term competition
to determine which governance model can best
solve global problems and improve the lives of
its citizens. Performance will drive perceptions of
power. America is strongest when it is improving
its condition at home and galvanizing global
efforts to tackle common challenges, not when
it is consumed by competition with an ambitious
but constrained power.
With best regards,
Dr. Harley Seyedin
Winner of the 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award
(together with Elon Musk, Durreen Shahnaz and Murad
Al-Katib)
Awarded by an Award Committee of Nobel Laureates in Peace
and Economics
Among few individuals in 231 years to be awarded the
Thomas Jefferson initiated Peace Through Commerce
Medal by the US Government
Visiting Scholar, Jinan University
President, Allelon Energy Partners
President, American Chamber of Commerce in South China
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China’s leaders will continue to confront
mounting domestic social, economic, and public
health-related stresses in 2023. If past is prologue,
it is reasonable to expect China’s leaders will
respond by seeking to calm their external
environment to concentrate on challenges at
home. To help counter scrutiny of their domestic
governance record, they will want to present an
image to their people of being afforded dignity
and respect abroad. Nowhere will such symbolism
matter more than in the U.S.-China context.
How China’s leaders are seen to be managing
relations with the United States often is a factor
in how their performance is perceived at home.
Even as the broadly competitive framework of
the US-China relationship is unlikely to change,
opportunities may emerge. For the United States
to advance discrete affirmative priorities with
China in the year ahead, the United States and
China are locked into a long-term competition
to determine which governance model can best
solve global problems and improve the lives of
its citizens. Performance will drive perceptions of
power. America is strongest when it is improving
its condition at home and galvanizing global
efforts to tackle common challenges, not when
it is consumed by competition with an ambitious
but constrained power.
With best regards,
Dr. Harley Seyedin
Winner of the 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award
(together with Elon Musk, Durreen Shahnaz and Murad
Al-Katib)
Awarded by an Award Committee of Nobel Laureates in Peace
and Economics
Among few individuals in 231 years to be awarded the
Thomas Jefferson initiated Peace Through Commerce
Medal by the US Government
Visiting Scholar, Jinan University
President, Allelon Energy Partners
President, American Chamber of Commerce in South China
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