‘Peace’ With the CCP: Echoes of Soviet-Era ‘Peace’ Posturing

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd R), joined by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (R), speaks while facing Yang Jiechi (2nd L), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, and Wang Yi (L), China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister, at the opening session of U.S.–China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 18, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/Reuters

Commentary

A cousin forwarded me a statement by “64 leading organizations,” headlined by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. I’m not sure if the paper should be categorized as a position paper, a petition, or a plea. But whatever it is, it denounces what they see as a growing bipartisan American “Cold War” mentality toward China. They would like to avert a hot war with China—especially one involving nuclear weapons.