US-China Relations: Sometimes Silence Is Golden
Commentary
President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have agreed on much when they met in Bali this week. But they did agree that both sides would start talking again.
A U.S. military officer serving in the Pacific asked if this at least was a good thing.
Yes, it is better than a thermonuclear war, but not as important as one might think.
One reasonably asks how 40-plus years of unrestrained engagement and communication with China worked out.
There were basically no limits to our communications with China during that time—until the Trump administration came along….