This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Monday, July 13th, 2020. I'm Caleb Brown.

China increasingly looms large as an election issue for 2020,

and it appears that Joe Biden and Donald Trump

are trying to out flex each other to the extent possible but even given China's

horrific ongoing human rights abuses and broken promises to places like Hong Kong is belligerent's really

the best strategy. Cato's Eric Gomez and John Glazer comment.

China has exerted a lot more authority over Hong Kong, especially in the last few months,

and Great Britain's response has been essentially to make a grand offer to Hong Kongers come here,

be citizens here.

In terms of strategy, is that a good move or a bad move I think it's a really great

move and the issue with America's approach to China is that I think we have this we like the pendulum right and I think we have this, we like the pendulum, right?

And I think it swings between engagement and confrontation.

And right now it's in the transition where it's swinging away

from engagement towards confrontation. and as part of that

there's a lot of suspicion in the United States about Chinese students Chinese

researchers there's an effort to kind of sort of wall them off from things that we deem sensitive

and I think that is entirely the wrong approach and part of it's just the Trump

administration and their general view about things like immigration and foreigners, but

you know, if the US, a good way for the US to lead by example in the world is to sort of follow what

Britain is doing and say, open our doors up, open our borders up to people seeking

political asylum, to people who want to escape bad situations, and it might not be as

cathartic as just slapping a sanction on the Chinese or instituting a new tariff or something on them.

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