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Geopolitics: Trump’s top priority must be a strong China strategy

AS PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP PREPARES TO TAKE office in January, one challenge looms large: China and its expanding role in the vital Asia-Pacific region. The incoming Administration will need to develop a long-term Pacific strategy—which ultimately eluded President Obama’s team.

Creating a long-term policy toward China will be difficult: Trump’s recent questioning of the venerable “one China” policy and China’s vigorous reaction illustrates the hypersensitivity in Beijing. There is certainly leeway

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