This approach is far from perfect. But for those who disagree with it, I repeat my challenge: the responsibility lies with critics to come up with a credible alternative. It is easy to come up with unilateral options for the future—that is, advice to either side on how they might militarily prevail against the other. But it is much harder to think through a joint framework for the future that preserves the peace without undermining each other’s fundamental national interests. The reality is that in this new age of strategic competition between China and the United States, there are, as a
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