Good Thursday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions.
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prepares for its 20th Party Congress, LIANCHAO HAN AND BRADLEY A. THAYER write that now's the time for the U.S. to grapple with China's growing global clout.
The stakes could hardly be higher, write the authors, "Whether the United States and its allies can sustain freedom in the 21st century or China will replace it by imposing totalitarianism on the world is the dispositive question of our time."
Han, vice president of Citizen Power Initiatives for China, and Thayer, director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy, argue that China will continue to be a threat to the free world for two main reasons.
The first has to do with the nature of China's government, a one-party communist dictatorship committed to using violence and terror to achieve its goals.
The second is that the "relative balance of power is changing in China's favor at the expense of the United States."
The authors lay out steps the U.S. must take to counter Chinese aggression, including acknowledging Chia's intentions and enlisting the Chinese people themselves into the fight against their oppressive government. "The U.S. should exploit the CCP's vulnerability by helping the Chinese people to envision freedom and overcome authoritarian rule," they write.
"This fight may not be one of America's choosing," Han and Thayer conclude, "but it is one that the U.S. must win."
Read Han and Thayer's piece here.
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