The U.S. is frantically searching for a new framework to guide relations with China.
Illustration by Luis Grañena
When an American missile punctured a Chinese spy balloon last week, it was a dramatic symbol of what many have long suspected: the U.S. policy of engagement with China has collapsed as completely as that balloon.
Engagement — the idea that if the U.S. wrapped China in a cocoon with Western economies a more liberal China would emerge — had a hell of a run and scored some big victories over the last half century. China's economic reforms have lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out
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