It’s hard to take China seriously as a threat to America because (1) they’re still stealing ideas from us, and (2) they’re going to implode from their one-child only / not-enough-females policy one of these days. I don’t know that they should or could be “managed” any better than we manage Russia. We need to be stern with Russia about Putin’s increasing swaggering intransigence (and tendency to sell off their out-of-date nukes), but I think a policy of benign neglect will work just fine with China.

When they quit stealing secrets and techniques from us, then I’ll become concerned. And when more Americans are immigrating to China than Chinese are coming to America — that will be a tipping point of sorts, too.