State of the United States who was personally involved in both World War II and the Cold War, issued a warning prior to Blinken’s visit to China, warning that a military conflict could break out in the Taiwan Straits and that the United States and China were “at the top of a precipice.”
Since there is no real winner in a war between two superpowers, it is Blinken’s duty as the top US diplomat to act honestly and take practical measures to avoid the worst-case scenario in US-China relations.
The author is an adjunct fellow at Renmin University of China’s Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies and a professor at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies.