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The Evolving Contest Between the US and China

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Jan 13, 2011
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The essence of great-power military competition involving two potential adversaries is to prepare for a military contingency while doing everything to avoid such a contingency.

That may sound somewhat illogical, but no one has ever said that the balance of power-related maneuvers are either straightforward or simplistic. What it means is that diplomacy w…

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