How to think about China. (foreign relations)(Column)

From: Newsweek | Date: June 16, 1997| Author: Abramowitz, Morton I. | Copyright information

China's economic growth presents new challenges to US foreign policy makers and makes previous US policies toward China obsolete. A long-term framework of productive US policy toward China would include avoiding making it an enemy and active, continuous engagement. Other facets are also described.

The debate over U.S. policy with Beijing grows more rancorous by the day.

Here is a policy framework that works.

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