The obvious fact is that neither the United States nor China is “going away.” While tensions are rising, the G2 are hitched together on the same planet. Although there is little possibility of a grand bargain, the application of practical solutions, combined with prudence, can help mitigate the risks. Better that, it would seem, than to have to borrow from mariners’ maps and apply the legend “Dangerous Ground” to the new geopolitical maps of the twenty-first century.
