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Then U.S. President Nixon toasts then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai during a banquet in Hangzhou, China, February 27, 1972. Credit: Corbis via Getty Images
The growing intensity of strategic competition between the United States and China and the attendant election-year pressures on U.S. political candidates to appear “tough” on China have reinvigorated a longstanding debate among U.S. observers: did the United States get China “wrong?” 45 years after the two countries normalized relations, that historical question raises a contemporary corollary: what would it mean for the United States to get China “right?”
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