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Article: Adrift in a Turbulent World; Beijing is now engaged in its own internal debate over whether a confrontation between China and the United States is inevitable.
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- Newsweek
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- April 24, 2006
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Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.)
The most important strategic decision the United States will make in the next decade is not about Iraq, Iran or North Korea. It is about China. What will America's basic attitude be toward the rise of China? And similarly, the most important strategic decision that Beijing will make in the next decade is: how should it relate to the United States? Depending on whether the answer
to these questions is "cooperation" or "confrontation," one can imagine two very different 21st centuries. And yet in neither country does one get the sense that there is clarity on this subject. President ...