Is China an Existential Threat to the United States?

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Vendy: Nobody wants to end up in a war with China, neither American nor Chinese. "This is not accommodation. This is about finding ways reciprocally back from the brink," he says. Is China an existential threat to the United States? It's not yet an existential threat, but I worry that by our actions and by the continuation of this action reaction spiral, we may end up in much more adversarial confrontational posture"

There’s rare bipartisan consensus in Washington: China is a threat to be countered. Cornell professor Jessica Chen Weiss says the American approach could lock both countries into an escalatory spiral.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

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