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The United States and China are the two most powerful countries in current global affairs, and Amitai Etzioni has put forward ideas for improving the relationship between the two powers. In his article, “China: Making an Adversary,” Etzioni argues that “adversarial predispositions” in the United States may be turning China into an adversary. My article draws on Etzioni’s insights to think further about how China can be made into a friend.
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Amitai Etzioni, Hot Spots: American Foreign Policy in a Post-Human-Rights World (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2012).
I realize that these points are controversial, and I have just completed a book titled “On Political Meritocracy: China and the Limits of Democracy” that develops the argument in a more systematic way.
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Bell, D.A. China: Making a Friend. Soc 51, 369–371 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-014-9794-x
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