In dealing with China today, US leaders should emulate successes & avoid mistakes from the Cold War. THREAD 1/
"American leaders must learn another lesson of the Cold War—détente with a communist regime also will not end confrontation or produce permanent cooperation."
"American leaders must learn another lesson of the Cold War—détente with a communist regime also will not end confrontation or produce permanent cooperation."
"They tried that approach in the 1970s, and it didn’t work. ...The United States cannot end its great power ideological rivalry with China anytime soon. Instead, it must be managed." 2/
"That leaves only a third, complicated, nuanced path—a patient mix of sustained confrontation and cooperation, containment and engagement, isolation and integration." 3/
"Such a strategy obviously must avoid war, but also abandon the false hope of partnership. Such a strategy must seek to reduce misperceptions, but also realize that some issues, no matter how many times they are discussed, will never be solved or reconciled." 4/
"Such a strategy must look for ways to engage the Chinese government on issues of mutual interest, but without checking our values at the door. " 5/
"Such a strategy must seek to deter Chinese expansionism when US vital interests are threatened, but not seek to block every Chinese investment, political partnership, or security arrangement around the globe." 6/
"And engagement with the Chinese communist regime must always be followed in parallel with engagement of Chinese society. These are the lessons of the last Cold War." 7/
Learning from the successes and mistakes in competing with the Soviet Union from the last century can help American leaders avoid a new, dangerous, and lethal Cold War with China in this century." Cold War Lessons and Fallacies for US-China Relations Today tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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