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Beijing's Overreach

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The Cost of Diplomacy

I would argue you can keep pushing hard on human rights and democracy and still do diplomacy. That's pretty basic grand strategy. The big cost to diplomacy is domestic politics. And I think we were late to get going with the diplomacy. China now is making nice to all of our allies trying to put a wedge in between them and us. They don't want to talk to us.

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