Professor Andrew Nathan quoted in POLITICO
Biden’s China-U.N. influence challenge
The U.S. government’s recent return to the U.N. Human Rights Council marked a significant step in a Biden administration strategy of U.N. reengagement to counter China’s influence at the global body. That’s essential to roll back the Chinese government’s bureaucratic rewiring of key parts of the U.N. to promote its interests to the disadvantage of the U.S. and its allies. Biden’s challenge is reversing years of U.S. disengagement with the U.N. system — where China has gained authoritarian-centric inroads — and reinvigorating it as a platform for diplomatic engagement with Beijing amid rising bilateral tensions . . .
. . . “Today such an assessment [of Mao] would presumably count as historical nihilism,” said Nathan . . .