The New China Scare

Why America Shouldn’t Panic About Its Latest Challenger

By Fareed Zakaria

"The nature of the challenge from China is different from and far more complex than what the new alarmism portrays. On the single most important foreign policy issue of the next several decades, the United States is setting itself up for an expensive failure," writes Fareed Zakaria in a new essay.

Read more from Foreign Affairs on U.S.-Chinese competition:

"The China Reckoning" by Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner
"The Stealth Superpower" by Oriana Skylar Mastro
"The Age of Uneasy Peace" by Yan Xuetong
"The Sources of Chinese Conduct" by Odd Arne Westad
"The New Geography of Global Diplomacy" by Bonnie Bley
"Competition Without Catastrophe" by Kurt M. Campbell and Jake Sullivan

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