Stop Worrying About Chinese Hegemony in Asia

“In 2018, for example, then-U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis warned thatChina is “harboring long-term designs to rewrite the existing global order. … The Ming Dynasty appears to be their model, albeit in a more muscular manner, demanding other nations become tribute states, kowtowing to Beijing.” Former U.S. officials such as Rush Doshi and Elbridge Colby and prominent realists writing on U.S. grand strategy—myself included—have made similar arguments…”

Foreign Policy