Susan Thornton:
Well, I guess what I would say is that the laying out of our concerns with China has been done over and over again in public for the last five years. So, I don't think there is much point in flying all the way to Alaska and sitting down, risking COVID protocols, et cetera, to just lay out again our concerns.
The Chinese are well aware of the concerns. And they made it pretty clear what they think of those and have over the past many years. And it has not changed. And it doesn't really get you anywhere, I would say.
So, I think the point of going to Alaska, again, is to get into private conversations to figure out how to manage the differences, how to engage in dialogue where you can find progress on areas, and to figure out where the overlapping areas of cooperation are. And I don't know how much progress we made on that, but I hope we made some.
The issue about kind of coming at it from a position of strength, I mean, my preference would be — and, frankly, maybe it is because I live in a rural part of the country where people just get stuff done, but I really think we need to calm down a bit about China.
I don't think that China is 10 feet tall. I don't think America is going anywhere. And I think there is a lot of miscommunication going on, on both sides. But the best way to deal with China is just to get into the details and start working.
Less talking and more doing, that would be my preference for dealing with the issues.
March 20, 2021 at 05:45AM
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