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How Washington Overestimates Chinese Weakness

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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Do You Think China Sees Advantage in the War?

I don't think I'm fully convinced the Chinese want the word cold war. They benefit from the fact of US distraction, just like they did 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. The engagement was a failure based on that. We're clearly heading toward what I would call strategic rivalry. What if a decision had to be made which may have to be made in kinetic response? That is not me being pedant here.

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