China
Reports
2022
Nov
9
Past Event
Xi’s sweep: Beyond China’s 20th Party Congress
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Online Only
2022
Oct
4
Past Event
Will China’s strongman become even stronger? What the 20th Party Congress means for the United States
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Washington, DC
2022
Sep
30
Past Event
Global China: US-China relations through the lens of technology competition
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Online Only
Jeffrey A. Bader
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center
Colin I. Bradford
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development
China has a strategic dilemma. They’re frustrated by the status quo, and they’re probing for ways to change it. But taking big, bold actions would come at an extraordinary cost to them. You can’t eliminate the possibility that they would be willing to pay that cost, and so we have to be prepared for it. But if you accept the proposition that war is inevitable, and we must do everything we possibly can to prepare for it now, then you risk precipitating the very outcome that your strategy is designed to prevent.
