government “seemed to believe that a Sino-American rivalry was either highly unlikely, too terrifying to contemplate, or too dangerous to discuss. By contrast, the “China hands” he knew in and out of the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of China, an experience that left him troubled about the future relationship between the two global superpowers. In the waning months of the Clinton administration, reports Foreign Policy, Friedberg, an international-relations professor at Princeton, was hired to review the U.S. ’86, dissects the present and future of Sino-American relations, stating that “despite several reasons a closer relationship between the two economic powers is possible, two main factors-a growing clash of interests and deep ideological and political differences-will prove more decisive and will make the relationship more tense and competitive,” according to a review by the New York Times Book Review. In A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia(Norton, $27.95), Aaron L.
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