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economic development. China’s economic takeoff started
around 1993.
40. See Herbert Yee and Ian Storey, eds. The China Threat: Perceptions,
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43. Bernstein and Munro, The Coming Conflict with China, p.
44. See Mearsheimer’s writings, “The Future of the American
Pacifier,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2001; “Clash
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帝” (“Mearsheimer: There Is No God in International Politics”),
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