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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy Magazine's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

Thank you. Foreign Policy Magazine's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live. Welcome to this show. Is America's China policy too hawkish? Now, we all know that Democrats and

Republicans agree on very little, but there's a rare bipartisan consensus in Washington that China's rise must be counted

in the strongest way possible. It often seems that if you want to get something done in Congress,

no matter how domestic the issue, just tie it to competition with China and nobody's going to

stand in your way. The problem with the tone of the current debate,

according to Cornell University professor Jessica Chen Weiss, is that policymakers are locked in an

escalatory spiral. Basically, anyone who seeks to diverge from the consensus is accused of having

sympathy for the other side. And what that means

is that the world's two largest economies might be on a dangerous path towards conflict.

Weiss is a China specialist. She worked on the State Department's policy planning staff in 2021 and

2022. And since leaving, she has widely published her concerns. She's been

cited in FP articles, and she's been the subject of a New Yorker profile. But are her warnings

valid? Is she accurately assessing the nature of China's challenge and also what Beijing's

intentions actually are.

And if she is, how should policy makers adapt?

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