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"The single most important challenge facing the U.S. in the twenty-first century is the rise of an increasingly authoritarian China under Xi Jinping."
Read our #NewChinaStrategy here: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
Read our #NewChinaStrategy here: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
Today, the Atlantic Council releases a #NewChinaStrategy on that challenge, written by a former senior government official with deep China expertise. The author has asked to remain anonymous, and we have honored this. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"China’s rise, because of the scale of its economy and military, the speed of its technological advancement, and its radically different worldview than that of the US, now impacts every major US national interest." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"The rise to power of Xi has greatly accentuated this challenge, and accelerated its timetable. At home, Xi has fostered a quasi-Maoist personality cult, pursuing the systematic elimination of his political opponents." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"Xi has used ethnonationalism to unite his country against any challenges to his authority, internal or external. Xi’s China increasingly resembles a new form of totalitarian police state." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"Xi has demonstrated that he intends to project China’s authoritarian system, coercive foreign policy, and military presence well beyond his country’s own borders to the world at large." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"The US, which once operationalized a unified strategy to deal with the challenge of the Soviet Union, in the form of Kennan’s containment, so far has none in relation to China. This has been a dereliction of national responsibility." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"It is now a matter of urgency that the US develop an integrated, operational, and bipartisan national strategy to guide the content and implementation of US policy toward Xi’s China for the next three decades." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"The political reality is that the CCP is divided on Xi’s leadership and his ambitions. Senior party members have been greatly troubled by Xi’s policy direction and angered by his endless demands for absolute loyalty." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"The mission for US-China strategy should be to see China return to its pre-2013 path—i.e., the pre-Xi strategic status quo. All US responses to China, therefore, should be focused through the principal lens of Xi himself." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"The objective should be to cause China’s leadership to conclude that it is in the country’s best interests to operate within the existing US-led liberal international order." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"The US list of red lines should be short, focused, and enforceable. China’s tactic for many years has been to blur the red lines that might otherwise lead to open confrontation." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"The ambition of US strategy for the decades ahead should be to cause China’s Communist Party leadership to change strategic course—with or without Xi at the helm." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
There is room for "a wider form of strategic competition with China" in diplomacy and economics. And there are policy challenges where it is in US interests "to engage in strategic cooperation." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"This strategy must be implemented nationally, bilaterally, regionally, multilaterally, and globally with allies. Such an approach will require an unprecedented level of US national and international policy coordination." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"For North Americans, Europeans, and others who believe in open economies, just societies, and competitive political systems, the challenge is to have continuing confidence in the ideas upon which they rest." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
"In the final analysis, the major problem facing the US in confronting Xi’s China is not one of military, economic, or technological capabilities. It is one of self-belief." #NewChinaStrategy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/the-longer-telegram/
