What the U.S. National Security Community Is Getting Wrong About China
It is tempting to say we are at a crossroads in U.S.-China relations. Tempting. But wrong.
We have passed the crossroads and we are already, unfortunately, dangerously, well on our way down the wrong path.
As Edward Luce pointed out in an insightful column in the Financial Times, we are already effectively engaged in a Cold War with China. “The consensus,” he writes, “is now so hawkish that it is liable to see any outreach to China as weakness.” You could hear that hawkish consensus in the words of U.S. intelligence chiefs as they testified before the Congress during their annual threat assessment hearing on Wednesday.