Happy September. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions. While Washington remains engrossed in the midterm elections and former President Trump's legal problems, tensions between the U.S. and China continue to mount.
Henry Kissinger has spent much of the last century thinking about U.S.-China relations — nurturing them through eight U.S. administrations and five Chinese rulers. Kissinger, who served as national security adviser and secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations, famously advocates engagement with China, downplaying its human rights abuses and even the communist nature of its government.
Kissinger is known as a realist, and yet he dismisses the notion that China has intentions to displace the U.S. as the world's superpower.
JOHN BOSCO, former China country director for the secretary of defense, believes such thinking helps explain why the U.S. finds itself in such a precarious position with China. He writes that we have long been in a permanent confrontation with communist China, always on the defensive.
Kissinger, Bosco writes, appears oblivious to China's real objectives. "Beijing has been committed to defeating American interests and values at every opportunity and in every strategic venue — economic, military, technological and geopolitical."
Bosco concludes that Kissinger's engagement policies with China have clearly failed and that "going on the offensive to achieve peaceful regime change in China is the only escape from the world's dangerous dilemma."
Read Bosco's piece here.
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