US Risks Underestimating the Power of Historical Memory in its Tussle with China

Walter Woon

ThinkChina

15 June 2020

This article first appeared as an RSIS Commentary, view the original commentary in the source above. It was also republished in TODAY, Lianhe Zaobao, Mothership, Eurasia Review and The Straits Times.

America has started a Confrontation with the PRC. Indiscriminate attacks on “the Chinese” will provoke a nationalist backlash fuelled by the memory of historical oppression and racism. This Confrontation will consume resources better utilised to recover from COVID-19.

Walter Woon is Professor and Chairman, Society for International Law Singapore as well as former Ambassador to Germany and the European Union.

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