On his blog, Fazal Majid has offered a rebuttal to recent calls for the US to “confront” China:
No matter how you look at it, the US does not have many realistic options to “confront” or even really contain China. The dominance of China is not a given. Remember, in the 50s, Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union posted equally impressive (and bogus) growth figures, leading him to boast he would bury us. China still faces immense challenges and could still blow it. But its future is in its own hands, not in the US’ or any other country’s. In this coming century, we will live interesting times.
