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Is U.S. Foreign Policy Trying to Do Too Much?

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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US Foreign Policy Has Been Fundamentally Transformative

I think there is a fair amount of consensus in our foreign policy debate right now about the failures of the last, say, three decades of American foreign policy. I think another failure that people in Washington are kind of starting to reckon with is the notion that we through our engagement in the 1990s and the 2000s, we actually helped to embed the rise of China. So I think in general, US foreign policy has been too expansive, too focused on trying to control everything.

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