With some notable exceptions, the willingness of the report to in significant respect ground its analysis on the reality of the effectiveness of cults of personality around the current Chinese leader may produce a distortion of analysis that leads to miscalculation. (1) The infatuation with leaders and cults of personality ought itself to be an object of strategy, for projections outward to China and inward within American politics. Reading the document will pay great dividends, especially as its shadows emerge within Biden Administration policy.Įxcept for this, which may also be taken as a challenge exposing what may e a core weakness of Reports constructed in this way: There is much food for thought there much of which will eventually exert a tremendous influence in the reshaping of the culture-governance architecture of this Republic and its relation both to its guiding leadership cores and to the masses who must be cultivated in the appreciation of emerging ways of seeing and understanding the world around them (expressed most directly in their voting management). I do not comment here on the substance of the The Longer Telegram: Toward a New American China Strategy. To those ends it attempts a transformation in the form of a fusion-taking the best of what survived from the pre-2016 American vision of a multilateral global order under its benign leadership (were the US authority was sourced in its own conceit as representing the world within its own borders) and fusing it with and into the cautions and approaches and notions of strategic competition that sparked tremendous heat between 2016-2020. It is remarkable for attempting to develop a new trajectory for relations between the two great centers of imperial power (each self consciously so-and both in their own minds for the best and most positive all reasons). One sees an early and quite remarkable example of this movement toward the reconstitution and reorientation of a disciplining orthodoxy among the leadership vanguard of the United States, at least as expressed in its policy toward China, in a recently release document, The Longer Telegram: Toward a New American China Strategy (Atlantic Council 2021). This is neither good nor bad-it is, however, necessary if the United States is to remain true to some version of its fundamental guiding vision. That forward movement necessarily requires the creation of new structures global leadership with the United States at the core. These reflect the way that the last 4 years have fundamentally transformed the way in will move forward. Strategies to create a more free, secure, and prosperous world" Atlantic Council Our Mission). Papers it publishes, the ideas it generates, the future leaders itĭevelops, and the communities it builds-shapes policy choices and Twenty-first century by informing and galvanizing its uniquely Navigating the dramatic economic and political changes defining the The Council provides an essential forum for International affairs based on the Atlantic Community’s central role in But it is likely that decades from now people in the business of developing consensus views about the "realities" of the past may come to see better appreciate the way that the years 2016-2020 marked both the end of the old American political order and the beginning of a new era in the development of the United States-both with respect to its internal self conception, and the way it viewed its place in the world.Īlready the process of building the post global American post-global global institutional frameworks (and adapting the old language of norms and politics to that task) has begun among deeply embedded elements of the ruling elites in this country organized within the organs of institutions like the Atlantic Council ("The Atlantic Council promotes constructive leadership and engagement in It will be along time before dispassionate analysis of the acutely disruptive revolution that occurred beneath the public circus that was the media fueled version of the administration of Donald Trump between 2016-2020.
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