Intelligence Squared debate: China and the U.S. are long-term enemies

Shanghai, China
Visitors look out over to Pudong from the Bund on a hazy day in Shanghai on May 15, 2012.
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Is China's economic and military ascendancy a threat to the U.S.? Can China be trusted to act as a responsible global stakeholder? The Intelligence Squared debate motion is: China and the U.S. are long-term enemies. YES: Peter Brookes of the Heritage Foundation and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago. NO: Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S. and Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia.

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