Is Our Foreign Policy Good? American Moral Absolutism and the China Challenge
Faith and Law
English - June 27, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsReligion & Spirituality Government christianity policy christian world view congress os guiness religious freedom human rights social justice constitutional law Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Many Americans frame frictions with China not only as a set of conflicting interests to be managed, but as a decisive battle between Democracy and Autocracy, between Good and Evil. In this formulation, our interests are often equated with the maintenance of our power and our power is viewed in millenarian terms. This tendency is baffling not only to our adversaries, but to our allies as well. Why do we lean on normative language whenever we feel threatened? And how can we make convincing arguments about the threat of Chinese Communist Party governance in a complex, skeptical world that does not view the United States as a moral exemplar and or the last hope of Christendom?
Robert Daly, Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars joined us to discuss this timely topic.