The winner of the 2024 presidential election will inherit an increasingly tense US-China relationship. In spite of a recent uptick in bilateral diplomacy, the tendency in Washington is to view global competition as a zero-sum game: Asia is rising, and so China’s regional power must be countered. On the American right, especially, a growing number of foreign-policy thinkers and strategists believe that this balancing should come in the form of military deterrent.
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