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O’Sullivan (eds.) Brookings Institution Press, 774 pp., $39, February 2023

O’Sullivan (eds.) Brookings Institution Press, 774 pp.,, February 2023 And the Biden administration will not get its China strategy right until it is clear about what has worked in the past. approaches to China would mean throwing out some of the most important tools the current administration relies on to compete with China. Every administration has combined engagement with strategies to counterbalance China through alliances, trade agreements, and U.S. security dependent on Chinese democratization. The fact is that no administration since that of Richard Nixon has made U.S. policies but also dangerous analytical ground upon which to build a new national security strategy. This, however, is not only a misreading of past U.S. policy, they say, was based on a futile view that engagement would lead to a democratic and cooperative China. As U.S.-China relations transition from an era of engagement to one of strategic competition, some in the Biden and former Trump administrations have claimed to be abandoning four decades of naive American assumptions about Beijing.
