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Two U.S. national security scholars point out in a new book, “We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War,” that the United States is already in a war with China. In the new Cold War, it is necessary to adopt a more determined and clear strategy of “we win, they lose” to win this fight with China.
“We win, they lose” was the US strategy against the Soviet Union proposed by the late former US President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. In 1977, when discussing foreign affairs, then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan said, “My thoughts on U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union are simple, some would say simplistic. That’s it: We win, they lose.”
On Tuesday (March 19), Dan Negrea, one of the authors of the book, senior director of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity at the Atlantic Council, a US think tank, and former special representative for commerce of the US State Department, was in Washington A new book symposium organized by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation pointed out that one of Reagan’s most important contributions in promoting the victory of the Cold War was his clarity.
“Reagan clearly pointed out that the Soviet Union was an evil empire and that there was no moral equivalence with the United States. He did not say that the Soviet Union and the United States were both great powers and needed to ‘coexist,'” he said. “Reagan clearly stated It shows that the United States is in a Cold War, an existential fight.”
However, Neglia pointed out that the United States has not yet formed a consensus in the whole society that China is in a new Cold War. “The United States needed this clarity then and it needs it now. The United States needs to make it clear that we are in a Cold War. If we accept Once this premise is met, important policy decisions will follow.
Another author of the book, Matthew Kroenig, a professor of government at Georgetown University, said that although Beijing has challenged the United States for many years, Washington did not announce peace with China until 2017 when the Trump administration announced Only then did we realize that Russia’s “great power competition” was the biggest threat facing the United States, that is, the United States was in the midst of a new Cold War. The 2017 U.S. National Security Strategy no longer considers counterterrorism a priority.
Negria told VOA that although the United States does not use the term “evil empire”, it needs to be clear that the CCP is an adversary of the United States. He maintains that the relationship between the United States and China is mainly confrontational. This is different from the Biden administration’s China strategy of “investment, collaboration and competition”.
On May 26, 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken released the long-awaited first China strategy of the Biden administration at George Washington University in the United States. He summarized the Biden administration’s China strategy in three words – “investment, coordination and competition”, that is, investing in the United States to enhance its strength, cooperating with allies, and winning the competition with China based on the first two.
Blinken said China is the only country that not only has the intention to reshape the international order, but also has the ability to do so. He said Beijing’s vision would take us far away from the universal values that have guaranteed the world’s continued progress over the past 75 years.
Kroenig, a professor at Georgetown University, told VOA that the dispute between the United States and China is also a battle of ideologies and values. It concerns whether the future of the world order will be led by the United States and its allies in the free world, or whether it will be committed to genocide. controlled by the Chinese Communist dictatorship.
“China is led by the Chinese Communist Party, and this does affect its foreign policy and the threats it poses. If China were a liberal democracy, it would not have order disputes with almost all of its neighbors and it would not systematically deceive The international economic system will not commit genocide against its own people in Xinjiang.”
He said, “This is a contest between the United States and the free world (with the Chinese Communist Party), where we represent a set of values that we should be proud of, and China represents a completely different and worse set of values.”
