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Article: Pondering War With China. (Commentary & Reply).
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
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To the Editor:
Lieutenant Colonel Roy C. Howle's article, "An Evitable War: Engaged Containment and the US-China Balance" (Parameters, Autumn 2001), is troubling. While the author appears realistic regarding the PRC leadership's ambitions, he seems to be unrealistic about what US policy short of war can accomplish in preventing PRC aggression and what the most likely place is for a US-PRC confrontation. The author states that China's leaders have the ambition to achieve regional hegemony and that they believe the United States is the principal obstacle to this. What the author fails to do is (1) follow these facts to their logical conclusion--that PRC leaders ...