'It’s all very well for the governments of U.S. and China to demonize each other, but what about the people caught in the middle?' writes Brian Wong
Brian Wong is a DPhil in Political Theory candidate at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Rhodes Scholar from Hong Kong. They are the founder of the Oxford Political Review.t’s all very well for the governments of U.S. and China to demonize each other, but what about the people caught in the middle?
I’m talking about Chinese people who have built their lives in America and Americans who have made theirs in China. Or Chinese and Americans who are married to each other and the children of those marriages.
and people like me—Hong Kong-born, Western-educated, with many American friends. Maybe this even applies to you.We are now caught up in the crosshairs of great power politics and we hate the way each side sees the other as always wrong. It’s a bit like being a child again and watching your folks fight.
Like the loudmouth parent trying to pick an argument, America whitewashes its own failures while pushing the button it knows will hurt most:
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