America Must Face Up to the China Challenge
10/17/14
Robert Haddick
Security, Foreign Policy, United States, China
There are four harsh realities regarding China's rise with which America must soon come to terms.
Regular readers of the National Interest enjoy a rich flow of essays
debating the consequences of China’s return as a great power and how
U.S. policy makers should respond to the challenge China’s rise will
create for U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific region and around the
world.
But
elsewhere in Washington’s corridors of power and across the country,
the subject of China’s rise, its implications for U.S. and regional
security, and how U.S. foreign policy should adjust to this development
is commonly treated like the proverbial elephant in the room, clearly
present, but not clearly discussed.
U.S. policy makers and the American public must face up to the fact that China’s return as a great power is inevitably creating a contest
that will likely evolve into the most consequential and taxing security
challenge the United States will face in the decades ahead. It will be
the most consequential because the stability and prosperity of the
Asia-Pacific region is of paramount importance to America’s economy, its
standard of living, its future prosperity and its own role as a global
power. It will be the most taxing, because China will have at its
disposal far more resources than the Soviet Union ever dreamed of
having. The Cold War security competition demanded much of the United
States; the China challenge will demand as least as much, if not more.
The China challenge is the elephant in most rooms in Washington perhaps
because the magnitude of the challenge is so unsettling to policy makers
and planners.
Nevertheless,
U.S. policy makers and America’s political system will inevitably have
to face up to the China challenge. Indeed, there are four harsh
realities with which America must soon come to terms.
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