Our future with China

The problem with the scaremongering in today’s Washington Post is that it assumes the United States will have a permanently antagonistic relationship with China, something which doesn’t need to be the case.  It’s easy to imagine a near-future where the United States and China have a somewhat friendlier relationship.

Ironically by fostering suspicion, the Washington Post (and newspapers like it) make it more likely that policy makers and the public will view China with not a small level of distrust.