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From our analysis, we found the following most relevant:(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 TrumpThis 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 oneIt 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 hotlineIn 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 communityWhen 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