The Clash of Ideas With China Is Inevitable
As rancorous U.S.-China talks this summer demonstrated, tensions between the two superpowers have continued to escalate. Beijing has declared that the relationship “is now in a stalemate and faces serious difficulties.” U.S. President Joe Biden has increasingly characterized strategic competition with China as part of a broader conflict between democracies and autocracies in the 21st century. This has prompted dissenters in Washington and around the world to decry the prospect of the two countries slipping into an ideological competition reminiscent of the Cold War.
Such warnings tend to come from two main camps. Political progressives warn that defining the standoff
