Generational clash emerges among US experts in China policy debate china
SAN DIEGO - An emerging generation of China policy experts is advocating a much sharper tone and approach towards Beijing, in contrast with a number of veteran China hands whose careers were shaped by the promise and tradition of engagement.
US strategy should"not just be engagement or containment," said Mr Ratner, 42, who was among several scholars and former practitioners loosely dubbed"the younger generation" who spoke at the 21st Century China Center's inaugural China forum. Those proposals are undergirded by a bipartisan consensus that China poses a broad challenge - in economic, military and technological terms - that the United States cannot afford to ignore. Indeed, the Trump administration's 2017 national security strategy declared that the United States has entered a new era of great power competition, with China and Russia as the two strategic competitors.
"What's the challenge? The challenge is to be both strategic competitors and strategic cooperators at the same time - and to not let the strategic competition that we will face drive us into becoming adversaries or enemies."Apart from the public panel, the proceedings were conducted under rules preserving anonymity, but some participants agreed to be quoted for this article.
Meanwhile, several"next generation" specialists expressed a greater wariness of China's intentions and pressed for a more muscular approach.
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