The great, urgent global challenges of the 21st century require much deeper cooperation over competition, yet Blinken "will try to coalesce skeptical international partners into a new competition with China, according to people close to the process" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/politics/biden-antony-blinken-secretary-of-state.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/2...
It is mainstream Democratic Party dogma that we will transform domestic and foreign policy around Great Power Competition with China, but do this without racism, without global violence, without destroying all prospects of global cooperation. This is a huge, dangerous fantasy
The great global challenges of the century include current and future pandemics, climate change, poverty, nuclear weapons, the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism. I remain convinced we can overcome them all, but under Great Power Competition these challenges become an abyss