Im the director of the program here at the center for the new American Security. A washington, d. C. Based nonpartisan and bipartisan think tank committed to crafting policies to help u. S. Decisionmakers. We have a most profound challenge confronting the United States in thy great power as an increasingly assertive and powerful china. Todays special event would be documentarian peter navarro, it is entitled crouching tiger what it means for the world and we are delighted to have not only am here today but also to distinguish fellows. We will hear from each of them after the main presentation. First let me say a few words to be framed the debate in the context of todays event. This is december 7 as a reminder of both strategic surprise and how the rising power might seek an expansion of its control throughout asia even at the expense of the power war. The concern today is that the reemerged naturalistic and increasingly revisionist china was bent on establishing the influence and under
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