I recently participated in a daylong conference focused on the question “If China succeeds, what are the implications for our security, prosperity, and freedom?” My colleagues attempted to devise win-win scenarios in which China’s rise could be consistent with the continued flourishing of the United States and its allies.
I took a more direct approach. I started instead by asking how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) itself defines success. Contrary to my colleagues’ rosier assessments, that exercise reveals that the CCP’s success would likely result in a more dangerous, impoverished, and tyrannical world for everyone else.
I recently participated in a daylong conference focused on the question “If China succeeds, what are the implications for our security, prosperity, and freedom?” My colleagues attempted to devise win-win scenarios in which China’s rise could be consistent with the continued flourishing of the United States and its allies.
I took a more direct approach. I started instead by asking how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) itself defines success. Contrary to my colleagues’ rosier assessments, that exercise reveals that the CCP’s success would likely result in a more dangerous, impoverished, and tyrannical world for everyone else.
