Amid the rising tensions, a warning about the dangers of “mutual animosity and zero-sum calculations” came from Robert Zoellick, who in 2005, as deputy secretary of state, had originally outlined the concept of China as a “responsible stakeholder.” A decade and a half later, Zoellick pointed out that the word “stakeholder” in the title of his speech had been followed by a question mark. Nothing was for sure. But, said Zoellick, even with all the evident tensions, China had in fact engaged in multiple ways within the international system that the United States, Western Europe, and Japan had
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