Those who argue that U.S. policymakers “allowed” China to rise too easily may overestimate Washington’s power. That misjudgment has implications for future American policy.
Then U.S. President Nixon toasts then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai during a banquet in Hangzhou, China, February 27, 1972. Credit: Corbis via Getty Images
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?”
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