Getting China Wrong News Today

Aaron Friedberg depicts how US engagement policies with China did not comprehend the true nature of the CCP, but fails to evaluate the nature of the policies themselves.

Aaron L.

From the end of the Cold War until recently, the West subsisted on a diet of delusions about China. Economic liberalization, the United States told itself, would lead to political liberalization. Beijing would be content to follow in an American-led world order.