Deep Rivalry or Elite Obsession? Washington’s Search for Dominance Over China
Dmitri Alperovitch, World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century (PublicAffairs, 2024). Visit the home of any D.C. foreign policy watcher and you will be sure to find bookshelves groaning under the weight of new China tomes. Every issue of Foreign Affairs, the in-house journal of Washington’s foreign policy establishment, is packed with articles about China. We are routinely told that, in a city more deeply divided by ideology and party affiliation than at any time since the Civil War, China is the one issue that brings the warring tribes together. Yet The post Deep Rivalry or Elite Obsession? Washington’s Search for Dominance Over China appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Dmitri Alperovitch, World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century (PublicAffairs, 2024). Visit the home of any D.C. foreign policy watcher and you will be sure to find bookshelves groaning under the weight of new China tomes. Every issue of Foreign Affairs, the in-house journal of Washington’s foreign policy establishment, is packed with articles about China. We are routinely told that, in a city more deeply divided by ideology and party affiliation than at any time since the Civil War, China is the one issue that brings the warring tribes together. Yet
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