On the Ballot: How to Manage the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry

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The need to compete with China is becoming a matter of bipartisan consensus.

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The Left Should Play the China Card

Foreign Rivalry Inspires Progress at Home

Tarun Chhabra, Scott Moore, and Dominic Tierney

The need to compete with China is becoming a matter of bipartisan consensus. How should U.S. leaders approach that competition?
“A progressive strategy to counter China would not only preserve the United States’ prosperity, bolster its security, and renew its ideals but also help mend its broken politics,” Tarun Chhabra, Scott Moore, and Dominic Tierney write in a new essay. “The left needs to reconsider its traditional aversion to geopolitical competition.”

The Trump administration’s China policy has already diverged from that of its predecessors. Elbridge A. Colby and A. Wess Mitchell describe how Washington is gearing up for the era of great-power competition. Nikki Haley argues that China’s aggressive new position requires a “whole of nation” response. Finally, Richard Fontaine cautions that the United States’ strategic shift toward greater competition with China is not a done deal—it could be scuppered by the American public’s relative disinterest in geopolitical rivalry.