On July 5, Forward Defense Nonresident Senior Fellow Nicholas Eftimiades appeared on NDT News to discuss the US State Department’s recommendation that Americans reconsider travel to China due to the risk of arbitrary detention. He also discussed Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to China and the economic relationship between the two countries.
The issue is fundamentally understanding ten years from now what we want this relationship to look like
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