China, the US, and the Danger Zone (Robert Wright, Hal Brands, and Michael Beckley)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is the United States Willing to Provoke China?
If you are unwilling to do anything that angers or provokes China, then you have just taken off the table. This is most clear I think when it comes to the military balance the Western Pacific but you can make the point across an array of other issues as well. It's very difficult moreover for the United States to achieve its aims let's say in the technological competition without doing things that actively injure pillars of the CCP system. And so this has come up recently and some of the discussions of a piece of legislation that's called the Taiwan Policy Act.
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