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"US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this week may ease tensions at
the margins of the US–China rivalry. But it will not change a central fact:
neither side can escape the rivalry, and neither side can decisively win it.
The biggest challenge for Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is whether they
can compete without turning the world’s most consequential bilateral
relationship into its most dangerous one. A war is not inevitable.
If Washington and Beijing want to keep their competition peaceful, they must
try to accomplish a few basic things:
* preserve military deterrence without turning it into provocation
* channel their rivalry into institutions and public goods, such as
infrastructure development, rather than a military confrontation
* keep ideology from hardening every disagreement into a zero-sum struggle.
So, how can this be done?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
