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Our approach to China and the Indo-Pacific world should be based on our national interest, which means we need a world able to deal with the big challenges that increasingly are universal rather than national. That means working to achieve a positive-sum world, rather than the current path we are on to a zero-sum world.

U.S. President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured. The U.S.-China agreement on climate change at the end of the recent COP26 summit in Glasgow shows there is still the potential to achieve more through cooperation without sacrificing competition. That should be our polestar, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and courtesy of Flickr
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