A three-pillar strategic framework for competing with China

China is not yet a military challenge as Russia is (or the Soviet Union was during the Cold War), but neither is it simply an economic competitor. In this article, Peter Watkins introduces a series of blog posts that LSE Business Review will be publishing along the next couple of weeks. The series summarises the new report ‘Protect, Constrain, Contest’, by LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank at LSE. In the report, academics and China watchers set out the important policies needed to put Western relationships with China on a firmer and more manageable footing.