The era of US-China “great-power competition” began at the end of the Barack Obama administration and gained intensity throughout the Donald Trump administration. It now has become common to hear Cold War analogies to understand the nature of US-China relations. But such comparisons are misplaced. At the same time, the US and China remain deeply interconnected and are competing within a single international system. Any effort to revive a “containment strategy” holds little purchase anywhere in the world. Although the risk of conflict remains deadly serious, the military domain is not likely to be where competition will be adjudicated. Instead, the crux of competition will be over which governance, social, and economic system will prove capable of outperforming the other.
Performance Will Determine Prestige in US-China Geopolitical Competition (Ryan Hass, Global Asia)
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