The study, titled “Stabilising the US-China Rivalry”, accuses a number of influential China hands – all proficient in Mandarin and drawing on Chinese-language sources in their arguments – of a “hawkish” distortion of Beijing’s terminology.
These “respected authorities” fuelled an increasingly common view that Beijing had “well-established, specific and uncompromising intentions that make almost any form of effort to create a meaningful equilibrium on specific issues pointless”, the study said.
Preliminary framework agreed ahead of Trump-Xi meeting
Preliminary framework agreed ahead of Trump-Xi meeting
The policy research organisation’s analysts gave numerous examples in the 115-page report to support their argument that prominent China watchers “sometimes rely on a narrow subset of sources and take these sources out of context”.
