Barack Obama and deterring China

In my last column, I argued that to ensure China chooses the "trading state" strategy as it rises geopolitically, rather than one based on aggression, it was imperative that the United States, as the sole superpower, follow a policy of deterrence. As Stanford University's classical historian Victor Davis Hanson, who has been surveying the parallels between the earlier rise of Germany and Japan, has succinctly observed, wars with rising powers are caused by an absence of deterrence, which encourages adventurism...

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