![]() ![]() The administration had already seen this possibility with the crisis caused by a Chinese Air Force collision with an EP-3 U.S. Even at a time when China was materially weaker than the United States or even Japan, the White House was actively preparing the toolkit that might be needed should China turn in a more aggressive direction. The transition memoranda on China and Asia knock down the assertion that Bush had a naive set of assumptions about China. (Note: We both served in the National Security Council during the Bush administration and co-wrote one of the chapters in the book.) ![]() Recently declassified by former President Bush and edited by former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, the collected analysis of the world as seen by the Bush National Security Council is available to the public from the Brookings Institution Press in Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush administration for the incoming Obama administration in late 2008 and early 2009. administrations really thought is the newly declassified set of transition memoranda prepared by the outgoing George W. Perhaps the most valuable peek inside what previous U.S. O’Sullivan (eds.) Brookings Institution Press, 774 pp., $39, February 2023 O’Sullivan (eds.) Brookings Institution Press, 774 pp.,, February 2023 And the Biden administration will not get its China strategy right until it is clear about what has worked in the past. approaches to China would mean throwing out some of the most important tools the current administration relies on to compete with China. Every administration has combined engagement with strategies to counterbalance China through alliances, trade agreements, and U.S. ![]() security dependent on Chinese democratization. The fact is that no administration since that of Richard Nixon has made U.S. policies but also dangerous analytical ground upon which to build a new national security strategy. This, however, is not only a misreading of past U.S. policy, they say, was based on a futile view that engagement would lead to a democratic and cooperative China. As U.S.-China relations transition from an era of engagement to one of strategic competition, some in the Biden and former Trump administrations have claimed to be abandoning four decades of naive American assumptions about Beijing. ![]()
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