the rise of China is an epochal event that requires a response. That response must be both forceful and sustained if the United States is to preserve its privileged position in global affairs. But it must be measured and nuanced if it is to avoid plunging America into a potentially disastrous conflict in Asia. The challenge is all the more difficult because the emerging rivalry between America and China is part of a much larger story. For more than five hundred years, ever since the dawn of the European colonial age, the fates of countries and peoples in Asia, Africa, and the Americas have
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