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Younger US foreign-policy trainees increasingly question the China threat playbook

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For years, Washington’s conventional wisdom has been that US China policy is moving in a tougher direction, but an analysis by SCMP Economy finds that the outlook among the next generation of diplomats and foreign-policy professionals appears less settled.

According to the outlet, observers at US universities including Georgetown and Rice say younger Americans are becoming more skeptical of the standard “China threat” approach that shaped the current policy consensus.

SCMP Economy reports that experts see a real shift in attitudes, though they disagree on whether those views will persist under pressure from Washington and on how China’s own behavior may influence what happens next.

The article frames the key question as whether younger Americans are starting to see China differently from today’s policymakers, or whether their skepticism is largely shaped by the current political and economic moment.

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