If China’s reform and opening-up since 1979 has succeeded in bringing the country to the centre of the global stage, it has also allowed the US to see whether the communist state would become more “like us” in the course of liberalisation.
The results of this experiment have been disappointing from a US point of view. Liberalisation has not changed China as the Americans had hoped.
Jim Mattis, the US defence secretary, used the unveiling in January of a new national defence strategy, following the national security strategy published at the end of 2017, to underline American discontent. “Great power competition — not terrorism,” he said, “is now the primary focus of US national security”.
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