NO ONE can say we didn't see it coming. Since the end of the Cold War, and even before, it has been obvious that a rapidly rising China could eventually menace America's position and influence in East Asia—and, perhaps, globally as well. Since the Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1995–96, moreover, there have been accumulating signs that Beijing is not a status quo power, but rather one determined to reshape the East Asian order. For decades, then, there has been no shortage of warnings about the emerging China challenge.
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