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Containing or counterbalancing China

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Aug 06, 2013
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I have said that containment was a strategy that has been mistaken for a policy. This phrase means that to define a policy is to define an end, whereas to define a strategy is to define a means.

This debate about names - whether 'containment' or 'counterbalancing' - soon gets tangled in arguments about what the names themselves mean, and seriously misses…

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