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| Managing China's Rise |
| 2005-05-08 |
| Contending effectively with China's ambitions requires a better understanding of our own by Benjamin Schwarz When President Bush took office, in 2001, the dominant national-security issue for his administration—and for most foreign-policy analysts, whether Republican or Democrat—was not terrorism or even Iraq but China. The issue, specifically, is that China will eventually emerge as what Pentagon planners call a "peer competitor" to the United States in East Asia—that is, a great power with the economic and military muscle to challenge America's preponderant position in a region that is sure to be the economic pivot of the new century. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 States are not interchangeable units with exactly the same goals and methods of achieving their aims. Very succinctly put! Grand slam! |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-05-08 12:29 |
| #5 Admittedly, German interests in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries could not be accommodated... But it's also true that in the same period the United States peacefully rose to be a great power... Perhaps he needs to understand that the US and German societies and governments were just slightly different? States are not interchangeable units with exactly the same goals and methods of achieving their aims. Idiot Continentalist. The whole world is not mitteleuropa, and Metternich or Bismarck would be completely clueless in the world situation today. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-05-08 12:10 |
| #4 In the '60s and '70s guys like him were talking about how the Soviets were only a defensive power, just trying to defend themselves with a buffer from a repeat of WWII. Riiiiight. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-05-08 07:57 |
| #3 Ben Schwarz has been talking about how multipolarity is a good thing for the better part of a decade. Heck - in his mind, the 9/11 attacks were probably a good thing, since they put Uncle Sam in his place. You gotta love the Atlantic - the way this liberal sees it, Uncle Sam is either incompetent or evil, which means that anybody else is the good guy. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-05-08 02:55 |
| #2 Mucky, that would be bone china, no? |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-05-08 02:27 |
| #1 ima not wanna know how yer manage em risin china. im thawt thisn em family website. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-05-08 02:09 |