China Expert Dennis Wilder on U.S. Policy Towards Beijing
Intelligence Matters
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The New Conventional Wisdom About China
The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all made a huge strategic error in naively believing that we could turn China into a liberal democracy through economic engagement. The 2006 national security strategy was what I would call a hedging strategy toward China. We helped lift hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty in some ways stabilizing that country. So I think when people say engagement failed, I'm not sure I know what they're talking about.
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