There is no time to waste. Hypernationalists are gaining ground in the politics of both capitals. Self-described realists with confrontationist agendas seek to influence their respective national security policies. Liberal internationalists, let alone multilateralists, are usually written off as weak-kneed. The United States, under first the Trump administration and now the Biden administration, has formally concluded that after forty years, strategic engagement between China and the United States has outlived its usefulness as a strategy. Instead, we have entered a new, uncharted era where
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