The US State Department has outlined a ‘Kennan-style’ China containment policy, which it hopes will help undercut its economic strength and maintain a Washington-led world order, a leaked paper has revealed.
The 70-page document called “The Elements of the China Challenge” was prepared by the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning and published by Axios on Tuesday. The plan goes along the lines of the “Long Telegram,” a 1940s foreign-policy blueprint authored by then-US ambassador to the Soviet Union George Kennan, who described the country as “impervious to logic of reason” but “highly sensitive to logic of force” and advocated its containment.
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