WASHINGTON—For decades, U.S.–Sino policy was rooted in the belief that support for China’s rise and its integration into the post-war international world order would liberalize the communist nation. Now U.S. lawmakers are seeing a need to assess options for countering China’s ‘‘less-than-peaceful rise.’’
China now wants to shape the world with its authoritarian model, so the United States must examine its policy options “to prevent China’s coercion from undermining the peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and beyond,” Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said during a Senate hearing on “Security and Military Developments” on Sept. 5 that focused on China.
