What Should the United States Be Doing That China Is Not Doing?

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The United States should continue to engage the People's Republic of China as a sovereign government. But America's diplomatic recognition of Taiwan can no longer be ignored, avoided or treated as secondary. The U.S. needs to discipline competition to what it is that we stand for and shouldn't let out-competing China define our sense of purpose.

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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