Balance, not containment. (US-China policy)

From: The National Interest | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: McLennnan, A.D. | Copyright information

Some analysts of US-China policy opine that the US must adopt a containment policy towards China as the latter actively undertakes its economic development despite an outmoded political system. Others argue that the US should adopt a policy of engagement towards China as an emerging new superpower. However, foreign policy towards China should, as it does with any major power, include the inevitability of the participation of Japan, Russia, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and other states, and this ...

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