| ID | 160138 |
| Title Proper | Competing with China |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Friedberg, Aaron L |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | There appears to be a growing consensus in Washington, and in the capitals of many other advanced industrial democracies, that prevailing policies towards China have failed and that an alternative approach is now urgently required. In a recent, widely read article in Foreign Affairs, two former Obama-administration officials conclude that, after years of ‘hopeful thinking’ about China's future, the United States finds itself confronting ‘its most dynamic and formidable competitor in modern history’.1
1 Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner, ‘The China Reckoning: How Beijing Defied American Expectations’, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2018, p. 70.
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Republican Senator Marco Rubio describes the challenge in similar terms, noting that in the 240 years since its founding, the United States has never before ‘faced an adversary of this scale, scope, and capacity’.2
2 ‘Worldwide Threats Briefing: 5 Takeaways, From Russia to China’, Wired, 13 February 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/worldwide-threats-briefing-russia-election-china/.
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‘Decades of optimism about China's rise have been discarded’, declares The Economist.3
3 ‘How the West Got China Wrong: Decades of Optimism About China's Rise Have Been Discarded’, The Economist, 1 March 2018.
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‘We got China wrong’, writes an editorialist for the Washington Post. ‘Now what?’4 |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 60, No.3; Jun-Jul 2018: p.7-64 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol: 60 No 3 |
| Key Words | China ; United States and China |