https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/08/will-cori-bush-be-stripped-of-committee-assignments-after-encouraging-prison-riot/

After Bush voted with Democrats to strip Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee assignments last week, it remains an open question now under the Democrats’ new standards whether Bush ought to remain on her committees.

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3120988/china-us-relations-are-too-important-leave-xi-and-biden

What’s more doable right now, on both sides, is to launch countless small, targeted educational, cultural and scientific missions and obviously beneficial projects. (America should not worry about technology theft; before long, the US will want to steal from China!) Keep the energy level of bilateral dynamism high. Let points of contact traverse the Pacific. Have enough of them and they will coalesce into a momentum for peace.

Instead of fearing the downside of such contacts (Confucian Institutes as spy nests, etc), imagine how all of us – scientists, professors, health leaders, concerned citizens, deeply worried students, even columnists – can help breed trans-Pacific peace. We cannot leave this to our governments. Xi and Biden might just let it be.

Tom Plate is a university professor and a veteran columnist focused on Asia and America. Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University has orchestrated live interactive seminars with major universities across Asia, as part of the LMU’s path-finding Asia Media International Centre.

He is vice-president of the Pacific Century Institute, in Los Angeles.

https://pacificcenturyinst.org/past