Aaron Friedberg on "Getting China Wrong"
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The Three Interlocking Arguments in Favor of Continued Close Relations With China
i argue that a new set of rationals or arguments in favor of continuing and expanding this policy of engagement with china, emerged. There really were, i think, three interlocking arguments, anset of sets of expectations. The first was the idea that although we perhaps didn't need china to count er soviet power, ch China could become even more important in helping to deal with various global challenges like pefration, climate change. Number two, there was a belief that by integrating china more and more rapidly and more extensively into what was becoming, at tat point, o truly global economy. And lastly, many people believed, sooner rather than later, a
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