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China’s Mounting Challenge to U.S. Hegemony

The Intercept Briefing

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The Status Quo Bias in American Foreign Policy

There's an elite enterprise that foreign policy is and there's also a strong status quo bias. I liken them to like Mandarin's in 19th century China, they were kind of working in a very conservative small see if you were looking at it sociologically it's often much more conservative. If people can't push change and take risk and make a mistake then nothing is going to happen. That's what our country is about.

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