The ‘Rising Superpower’ Myth about China

Article/Op-Ed in CNN
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Sept. 7, 2023

New America Vice President Peter Bergen and Future Security Program Fellow Joel Rayburn write on the limits of China's power.

It’s fair to criticize the US and its allies for underestimating the dangers from China for most of the past quarter-century, and it’s right and reasonable to refocus on deterring Chinese aggression in the near term. But what comes after the near term? It’s a strategic error to underestimate an adversary, but it’s just as great an error to overestimate one.

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