Freiburg: I think China makes decisions a little differently than perhaps US policymakers and foreign policymakers make decisions. They think forward and calculate the series of events that will follow from that decision, whereas we are typically reacting to some event that's happened in the past," he says. Freiburg: As they do through that calculation, you end up realizing pretty quickly that there isn't as much to gain as there is more to lose by doing that.

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