Awareness of the Chinese threat is generating a growing consensus within an otherwise fractured political class. But the intellectual battle is in full swing over the question of how to respond. During the recent conference of conservative intellectuals, which was held from October 31 to November 2 in Orlando, Florida, three American strategists notably clashed without taking gloves. Michael Pillsbury, former adviser to Donald Trump, is a hawk, who thinks that the United States must prepare to go to war to defend the island of Taiwan. The other two, supporters of the "realistic" school, Michael Anton and David Goldman, consider this scenario irresponsible and likely to lead to nuclear fire. On the Asia Times, where he published the transcript of the debate,Goldman compares the heated spirits to the pre-World War I mood and warns of "the South China Sea sleepwalkers", who as in 1914,
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