The re-emergence of China as a truly great power has long been a dominating issue among scholars and practitioners in the foreign policy discourse in the United States. With the potential of becoming a peer competitor to the U.S., the question is whether Chinas rise will be a source for global stability or a springboard leading to renewed great power conflict. The corresponding question - regardless of the trajectory Chinas rise takes - is what an appropriate strategy should look like. In this book, Matthis Kaiser analyses the strategies that have driven U.S. policy towards China since the...