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(Silicon Valley is simply never going to cooperate with the Pentagon nearly to the degree that China's burgeoning high-tech sector cooperates with its government.) China is the pacing threat the U.S. military now measures itself against.
This American refusal to yield blue water territory to China is championed by liberal hawks who will likely staff any incoming Democratic administration's Asia portfolios, to say nothing of the Republicans.both pro- and anti-President Donald Trump
This is an emotional as well as a historical commitment: something I have personally experienced as an embed on U.S. military warships in the Western Pacific.
In fact, the U.S. Defense Department is much more energized by the China threat than by the Russia one
It is precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between the United States and China.
The geopolitical challenge of the first half of the 21st century is stark: how to prevent the U.S.-China cold war from going hot.
Preventing a hot war means intensified diplomacy not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon - American generals talking and visiting with Chinese generals in order to create a network of relationships that are the equivalent of the old Cold War hotline
In order to understand what is going on, we have to stop artificially separating U.S.-China trade tensions and U.S.-China military tensions.
There is also the ideological aspect of this new cold war. For several decades, China's breakneck development was seen positively in the United States, and the relatively enlightened authoritarianism of Deng Xiaoping and his successors was easily tolerated, especially by the American business community
When a Chinese vessel cut across the bow of an American destroyer, or China denied entry of a U.S. amphibious assault ship to Hong Kong - as happened last fall - this cannot be separated from the atmosphere of charged rhetoric over trade

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( CHINA, TRADE )(5, 1st Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, PROGRESSIVES )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, AMERICAN )(2, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, WHITE_HOUSE )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, TRUMPSTERS )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, TRUMP )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, TRANS-PACIFIC_PARTNERSHIP )(1, 2nd Order) top

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( CHINA, TRADE, TECHNOLOGY )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, STEALING )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, SEPARATING )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, TRADE, RILES )(1, 2nd Order) top

( CHINA, MILITARY )(4, 1st Order) top

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( CHINA, UNITED_STATES )(3, 1st Order) top

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( CHINA, CHINESE )(3, 1st Order) top

( CHINA, YIELD )(1, 1st Order) top

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( AMERICAN, COLD_WAR )(2, 1st Order) top

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References

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Regarding the trade talks themselves, what really riles both the Trumpsters and the Democrats (moderates and progressives alike) is the very way China does business: stealing intellectual property, acquiring sensitive technology through business buyouts, fusing public and private sectors so that their companies have an...
( CHINA, TRADE, AMERICAN ) top
(Read more) topWhen a Chinese vessel cut across the bow of an American destroyer, or China denied entry of a U.S. amphibious assault ship to Hong Kong - as happened last fall - this cannot be separated from the atmosphere of charged rhetoric over trade
(Read more) top
Preventing a hot war means intensified diplomacy not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon - American generals talking and visiting with Chinese generals in order to create a network of relationships that are the equivalent of the old Cold War hotline
( CHINA, TRADE, WHITE_HOUSE ) top
(Read more) top The fact is, since President Richard Nixon went to China in 1972, U.S. policy toward the Pacific has been notably consistent whatever party has held the White House, and the turn against China has likewise been a bipartisan affair - and thus unlikely to be dramatically affected by any impeachment or presidential election.
Regarding the trade talks themselves,...
( CHINA, TRADE, TRUMPSTERS ) top
(Read more) top
Regarding the trade talks themselves, what really riles both the Trumpsters and the Democrats (moderates and progressives alike) is the very way China does business: stealing intellectual property, acquiring sensitive technology through business buyouts, fusing public and private...
( CHINA, TRADE, TRUMP ) top
(Read more) top... Middle East, something that may actually strengthen the U.S. And as for left-wing Democratic progressives, when it comes to a hard line on trade talks with China, they are not too far away from Trump's own economic advisors. Remember that the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was forced to publicly disown the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement because of pressure from her own party
( CHINA, TRADE, TRANS-PACIFIC_PARTNERSHIP ) top
(Read more) top... comes to a hard line on trade talks with China, they are not too far away from Trump's own economic advisors. Remember that the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was forced to publicly disown the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement because of pressure from her own party.
( CHINA, TRADE, TRADING ) top
(Read more) top ... intellectual property, acquiring sensitive technology through business buyouts, fusing public and private sectors so that their companies have an unfair advantage (at least by the mores of a global capitalistic trading system), currency manipulation, and so on.
( CHINA, TRADE, TECHNOLOGY ) top
(Read more) top ... trade talks themselves, what really riles both the Trumpsters and the Democrats (moderates and progressives alike) is the very way China does business: stealing intellectual property, acquiring sensitive technology through business buyouts, fusing public and private sectors so that their companies have an unfair advantage (at least by the mores of a global capitalistic trading system), currency manipulation, and...
( CHINA, TRADE, STEALING ) top
(Read more) top
Regarding the trade talks themselves, what really riles both the Trumpsters and the Democrats (moderates and progressives alike) is the very way China does business: stealing intellectual property, acquiring sensitive technology through business buyouts, fusing public and private sectors so that their companies have an unfair advantage (at least by the mores of a global capitalistic...
( CHINA, TRADE, SEPARATING ) top
(Read more) topIn order to understand what is going on, we have to stop artificially separating U.S.-China trade tensions and U.S.-China military tensions.
There is also the ideological aspect of this new cold war
( CHINA, TRADE, RILES ) top
(Read more) top
Regarding the trade talks themselves, what really riles both the Trumpsters and the Democrats (moderates and progressives alike) is the very way China does business: stealing intellectual property, acquiring sensitive technology through business buyouts,...
( CHINA, MILITARY ) top
(Read more) top This is an emotional as well as a historical commitment: something I have personally experienced as an embed on U.S. military warships in the Western Pacific.
In fact, the U.S. Defense Department is much more energized by the China threat than by the Russia one
(Read more) top ... Valley is simply never going to cooperate with the Pentagon nearly to the degree that China's burgeoning high-tech sector cooperates with its government.) China is the pacing threat the U.S. military now measures itself against.
This American refusal to yield blue water territory to China is championed by liberal hawks who will likely staff any incoming Democratic administration's Asia...
(Read more) topIn order to understand what is going on, we have to stop artificially separating U.S.-China trade tensions and U.S.-China military tensions.
There is also the ideological aspect of this new cold war. For several decades, China's breakneck development was seen positively in the United States, and the relatively enlightened...
(Read more) top It is precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between...
( CHINA, AMERICAN ) top
(Read more) top
This American refusal to yield blue water territory to China is championed by liberal hawks who will likely staff any incoming Democratic administration's Asia portfolios, to say nothing of the Republicans.both...
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , TRADE , AMERICAN )
( CHINA, UNITED_STATES ) top
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This is because the differences between the United States and China are stark and fundamental. They can barely be managed by negotiations and can never really be assuaged.
The Chinese are committed to pushing U.S. naval and air forces away from...
(Read more) top. For several decades, China's breakneck development was seen positively in the United States, and the relatively enlightened authoritarianism of Deng Xiaoping and his successors was easily tolerated, especially by the American business community
(Read more) top ... economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between the United States and China.
The geopolitical challenge of the first half of the 21st century is stark: how to prevent the U.S.-China cold war from going hot.
Preventing a hot war means intensified...
( CHINA, DEMOCRATIC ) top
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This American refusal to yield blue water territory to China is championed by liberal hawks who will likely staff any incoming Democratic administration's Asia portfolios, to say nothing of the Republicans.both pro- and anti-President Donald Trump
( CHINA, WESTERN_PACIFIC ) top
(Read more) top This is an emotional as well as a historical commitment: something I have personally experienced as an embed on U.S. military warships in the Western Pacific.
In fact, the U.S. Defense Department is much more energized by the China threat than by the Russia one
( CHINA, THREAT ) top
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In fact, the U.S. Defense Department is much more energized by the China threat than by the Russia one. It considers China, with its nimble ability as a rising technological power - unencumbered by America's own glacial bureaucratic oversight - to catch up and perhaps surpass...
(Read more) top (Silicon Valley is simply never going to cooperate with the Pentagon nearly to the degree that China's burgeoning high-tech sector cooperates with its government.) China is the pacing threat the U.S. military now measures itself against.
This American refusal to yield blue water territory to China is championed by liberal hawks who will likely staff any incoming Democratic...
( CHINA, PROGRESSIVES ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , TRADE , PROGRESSIVES )
( CHINA, CHINESE ) top
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The Chinese are committed to pushing U.S. naval and air forces away from the Western Pacific (the South and East China seas), whereas the U.S. military is determined to stay put
(Read more) topWhen a Chinese vessel cut across the bow of an American destroyer, or China denied entry of a U.S. amphibious assault ship to Hong Kong - as happened last fall - this cannot be separated from the atmosphere...
(Read more) top
Preventing a hot war means intensified diplomacy not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon - American generals talking and visiting with Chinese generals in order to create a network of relationships that are the equivalent of the old Cold War hotline
( CHINA, YIELD ) top
(Read more) top
This American refusal to yield blue water territory to China is championed by liberal hawks who will likely staff any incoming Democratic administration's Asia portfolios, to say nothing of the Republicans.both pro- and anti-President...
( CHINA, WHITE_HOUSE ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , TRADE , WHITE_HOUSE )
( CHINA, UNENCUMBERED ) top
(Read more) top. It considers China, with its nimble ability as a rising technological power - unencumbered by America's own glacial bureaucratic oversight - to catch up and perhaps surpass the United States in 5G networks and digital battle systems
( AMERICAN ) top
( AMERICAN, UNITED_STATES ) top
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In the second half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese...
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , UNITED_STATES )
( AMERICAN, MILITARY ) top
(Read more) topBut Washington can win if it stays more patient than June 2005, I published a cover story in the Atlantic, "How We Would Fight China." I wrote that, "The American military contest with China - will define the twenty-first century. And China will be a more formidable adversary than Russia ever was." I went on to explain that the wars of the future would be naval, with...
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , MILITARY )
(Read more) top... economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese economies are now. It is precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between...
( AMERICAN, ECONOMIC ) top
(Read more) top Indeed, this new cold war is more susceptible to irrational passions fueled by economic disruptions than the old Cold War.
In the second half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that...
(Read more) top It is precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between the United States...
( AMERICAN, DIGITAL ) top
(Read more) topRather than a collegial group of uncharismatic technocrats constrained by retirement rules, there is now a president-for-life with a budding personality cult, overseeing thought control by digital means.including facial recognition and following the internet searches of its citizens. It is becoming rather creepy, and American leaders of both parties are increasingly repelled by it
(Read more) top It is precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between the United States and China.
The geopolitical challenge of the first half of the 21st...
( AMERICAN, COLD_WAR ) top
(Read more) top Indeed, this new cold war is more susceptible to irrational passions fueled by economic disruptions than the old Cold War.
In the second half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing...
(Read more) top ... only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon - American generals talking and visiting with Chinese generals in order to create a network of relationships that are the equivalent of the old Cold War hotline.
( AMERICAN, YIELD ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , YIELD )
( AMERICAN, UNVIRTUOUS ) top
(Read more) top ... precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between the United States and China.
The geopolitical challenge of the first half of the 21st century is stark: how to prevent the U.S.-China cold war from going hot.
Preventing...
( AMERICAN, UNCHARISMATIC ) top
(Read more) topRather than a collegial group of uncharismatic technocrats constrained by retirement rules, there is now a president-for-life with a budding personality cult, overseeing thought control by digital means.including facial recognition and following...
( AMERICAN, TRADE ) top
(Read more) top... (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese economies are now. It is precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance - that has created an unvirtuous cycle for relations between...
( AMERICAN, THREAT ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , THREAT )
( AMERICAN, TECHNOCRATS ) top
(Read more) topRather than a collegial group of uncharismatic technocrats constrained by retirement rules, there is now a president-for-life with a budding personality cult, overseeing thought control by digital means.including facial recognition and following the internet...
( TRADE ) top
( TRADE, ECONOMIC ) top
(Read more) top... something that may actually strengthen the U.S. And as for left-wing Democratic progressives, when it comes to a hard line on trade talks with China, they are not too far away from Trump's own economic advisors. Remember that the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was forced to publicly disown the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement because of pressure from her own party
(Read more) top See ( AMERICAN , ECONOMIC )
( TRADE, CHINESE ) top
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That future has arrived, and it is nothing less than a new cold war: The constant, interminable Chinese computer hacks of American warships'maintenance records, Pentagon personnel records, and so forth constitute war by other means
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , CHINESE )
(Read more) top... United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese economies are now. It is precisely the fusion of military, trade, economic, and ideological tensions, combined with the destabilization wrought by the digital age - with its collapse of physical distance...
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(Read more) top defense establishment, both uniformed and civilian, considers the United States a Pacific power for all time: Witness Commodore Matthew Perry's opening of Japan to trade in 1853, America's subjugation and occupation of the Philippines starting in 1899, the bloody Marine...
(Read more) top See ( AMERICAN , UNITED_STATES )
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , UNITED_STATES )
( TRADE, PROGRESSIVES ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , TRADE , PROGRESSIVES )
( TRADE, MILITARY ) top
(Read more) topIn order to understand what is going on, we have to stop artificially separating U.S.-China trade tensions and U.S.-China military tensions.
There is also the ideological aspect of this new cold war.
(Read more) top See ( AMERICAN , MILITARY )
( TRADE, COLD_WAR ) top
(Read more) top See ( AMERICAN , COLD_WAR )
( TRADE, WHITE_HOUSE ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , TRADE , WHITE_HOUSE )
( TRADE, UNVIRTUOUS ) top
(Read more) top See ( AMERICAN , UNVIRTUOUS )
( TRADE, TRUMPSTERS ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , TRADE , TRUMPSTERS )
( TRADE, TRUMP ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , TRADE , TRUMP )
( CHINESE ) top
( CHINESE, UNITED_STATES ) top
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In the second half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese economies are now
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(Read more) topSo China will wait a number of years until it surpasses Japan in naval and air power. Beijing's rulers know how closely their strategy dovetails with the feelings of the Chinese masses. Indeed, this new cold war is more susceptible to irrational passions fueled by economic disruptions than the old Cold War.
In...
( CHINESE, MILITARY ) top
(Read more) top See ( CHINA , MILITARY )
( CHINESE, ECONOMIES-OF-SCALE ) top
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In the second half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese economies are now
( CHINESE, ECONOMIES ) top
(Read more) top ... and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese economies are now
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(Read more) topBeijing's rulers know how closely their strategy dovetails with the feelings of the Chinese masses. Indeed, this new cold war is more susceptible to irrational passions fueled by economic disruptions than the old Cold War.
In the second half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that...
(Read more) top See ( AMERICAN , ECONOMIC )
( CHINESE, DOVETAILS ) top
(Read more) topSo China will wait a number of years until it surpasses Japan in naval and air power. Beijing's rulers know how closely their strategy dovetails with the feelings of the Chinese masses. Indeed, this new cold war is more susceptible to irrational passions fueled by economic disruptions than the old Cold War.
In the second half of the 20th...
( CHINESE, DESTABILIZING ) top
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In the second half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale (however different from each other), that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than the American and Chinese economies are now.
( CHINESE, COLD_WAR ) top
(Read more) top See ( AMERICAN , COLD_WAR )
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(Read more) top. They can barely be managed by negotiations and can never really be assuaged.
The Chinese are committed to pushing U.S. naval and air forces away from the Western Pacific (the South and East China seas), whereas the U.S. military is determined to stay put