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Can it be that fresh air is being permitted to enter US foreign affairs thinking? The other day, a critique of US policy towards China turned up on my computer screen that raised my hopes. It amounted to a reasoned plea for exactly the kind of strategic rethinking America needs to put together soon. The essay called for junking the moribund approach of confrontation and containment and re-pivoting to Asia with a calibrated appreciation of China’s growing stature in 21st-century geopolitics. It coolly reprimanded both sides for fuelling the growing bilateral arms race , when the race which both sides...
