The growing intensity of strategic competition between the United States and China and the attendant election-year pressures on U.S. political candidates to appear “tough” on China have reinvigorated a longstanding debate among U.S. observers: did the United States get China “wrong?” 45 years after the two countries normalized relations, that historical question raises a contemporary corollary: what would it mean for the United States to get China “right?” An excerpt from the Trum