Tag: Foreign Policy
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Tom Cotton: The Epistemology of Threat — China, Secrecy, and the Manufacture of Strategic Necessity
Fundamentally, Senator Tom Cotton’s foreign policy posture emerges from a sustained pattern of public statements and legislative priorities that collectively signal a deeply adversarial interpretation of the People’s Republic of China’s role in the international system. Principally, his characterization of Beijing’s ambitions reflects an understanding of great-power politics in which hierarchical supplantation—articulated in near-soliloquy as…
