{ "error": "", "type": "text", "title": "Elizabeth Warren's Remarks in "Foreign Affairs" - China and Indo-Pacific Alliances", "slug": "elizabeth-warrens-remarks-in-foreign-affairs-china-and-indo-pacific-alliances", "text": "
\"Would-be rivals, for their part, have watched and learned, and they are hard at work developing technologies and tactics to leapfrog the United States, investing heavily in such areas as robotics, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and quantum computing. China is making massive bets in these and other areas in an effort to surpass the United States as a global technological power. Whether the United States will maintain its edge and harness these technologies for good remains an open question. [...] Democracy is running headlong into the ideologies of nationalism, authoritarianism, and corruption. China is on the rise, using its economic might to bludgeon its way onto the world stage and offering a model in which economic gains legitimize oppression. [...] The dictators who run those countries stay in power not simply because they hold unwilling populations under brutal control; they also maintain control through corrupt economic policies that favor the wealthy elites who keep them in power. In China, President Xi Jinping consolidates his power and talks of a \u201cgreat rejuvenation,\u201d while corporations that answer to the state make billionaires out of Communist Party elites. [...]President Trump seems all too comfortable with this rising authoritarianism. He shamefully kowtows to Putin, even in the face of Russian attacks on American democracy. His trade policies toward China are hardly stopping Chinese economic malfeasance. Instead of strengthening crucial alliances with Japan, South Korea, and Europe, he is actively undermining them. [...] In Asia, we should encourage our allies to enhance their multilateral cooperation and build alternatives to China\u2019s coercive diplomacy. We should also respond to China\u2019s efforts to force foreign companies to hand over sensitive technology in order to gain access to the Chinese market and penalize its theft of U.S. intellectual property. Around the world, we should aggressively promote transparency, call out kleptocracy, and combat the creeping influence of corruption.\"
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