Is American policy toward China due for a ‘reckoning’?

USSC Senior Fellow Dr Charles Edel responds to Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner’s Foreign Affairs article on a "mistaken" US confidence in its ability to mould China to its liking.

In this discussion for ChinaFile, Dr Edel writes “a clear-eyed policy would entail a multilateral and sustained endeavor to apply counter-pressure against Beijing’s efforts to create its own sphere of influence.”