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Elizabeth Economy
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Elizabeth Economy
@LizEconomy
Senior Advisor (for China) Department of Commerce. Personal Account. On leave from Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Opinions my own.
D.C./New York
Joined July 2011
- Few things are more damaging to China's soft power ambitions than the country's ambassadors on twitterEthnic minorities dancing in Xinjiang. Only happy and carefree people can dance so beautifully.
00:00 - In zoom seminar with Chinese colleagues yesterday, I raised Tiananmen, then why US is concerned about PRC's polit system: Uyghurs, HK, NBA, journalists, etc. Was dropped from the call in middle of remarks. Got back on. We all joked about it--but maybe there was no joke to be hadCritics of the Chinese government, including protest leaders in Hong Kong and pro-democracy activists in the US, say Zoom shut their accounts under pressure from Beijing. Zoom acknowledges that “a few recent meetings” related to China have been disrupted. washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
- What would happen if the US, EU member countries, Canada, Japan, and Australia all sent reps to Taiwan at the same time. Can we just break the back of this ridiculousness?Here is an English version of what is happening in Prague with Beijing literally threatening people and firms reuters.com/article/us-chi…
- Why worry about today when you can have the entire world lauding you for something you promise to do by 2060?China granted more construction permits for coal-fired power plants in the first six months of 2020 than it had each year in 2018 and 2019. (NYT) #ClimateCrisis
- A lot of people are talking about how the U.S. has left the door open for China to assume the mantle of global leadership. Let me offer an alternative argument: We suck, but China does too. on.cfr.org/2AFmooI
- Actually, it reveals more about MI6's intel capabilities--Xi has been hiding in plain sight since 2012
- Tiny Estonia, the Czech Republic and Sweden all pushing back against Chinese coercive tactics. Where are the big guys—U.K., Germany and France?
- What price freedom? A bottle of Australian wine. Kudos to the world's parliamentarians for leading the way.
- It would be great if Kissinger would offer that same advice to Beijing, which is in fact the actor that is seeking to use its values to undermine existing structuresHenry Kissinger & Michael Bloomberg argue that the US should not push China too hard on human rights. on.ft.com/3theFsg
- It would be nice if Kishore would write a piece that talked about how Beijing instead of Biden should "summon the courage to reverse course"Apparently reasonable argument about Chinese success today—but ignoring the atrocities in Xinjiang makes it meaningless. It’s like saying PRC was doing great in 1968–except for the Cultural Revolution. XJ issue is overtaking all else, till CCP backs off ft.com/content/43421a…
- Replying to @billbirtlesThe real question is: who cares what Elon Musk has to say about Taiwan?
- China will engage on climate change--or it won't--for its own reasons. The EU investment agreement will have no impact.Replying to @StuartKLauEU Commission spokesman @MamerEric defended the bloc’s decision to reach an investment deal, and added the need to engage China on issues like climate change, when asked about the impact of the human rights situation in Hong Kong on EU-China relations.
