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Sino-US ties: How not to create a crisis
The Tsai-McCarthy meeting offers useful lessons on avoiding escalation. They should be heeded because more trouble lies ahead.
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Learning the lessons from the recent Tsai-McCarthy meeting is especially important because the general direction of Sino-US ties remains so bleak, says the writer.
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The most important aspect of China-US ties over recent weeks is not what happened, but what did not. US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did not take a trip to Taiwan to meet President Tsai Ing-wen. China therefore did not repeat the unprecedented military action that followed the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
So why did all this not occur, and who deserves credit?
