The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity

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Here's a question that doesn't get asked nearly often enough in Washington. Whatever the United States decides it wants from its relationship with China to compete with it, to manage or even contain it, to strike deals with China, or or some shifting combination of the above. Does it actually have the people to do any of that well? The institutions, the language capacity, the human infrastructure.

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