Building a stable international order in Asia and the Pacific, in which a major international conflict remains unthinkable, requires a number of elements.
Understandably much of the focus on thinking about avoiding the unthinkable, to date, has been on the how to manage the rise of China's power and its impact on America.
That is the focus of Hugh White's idea of an Asian 'concert of powers' and how it might be built around an understanding that accommodates China's rise and rightful expectation of treatment as an equal.
(East Asia Forum)
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