The U.S. should not treat the rest of the world as proxy battlegrounds in competition with China, as occurred during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, but instead offer a better value proposition.

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Jake Sullivan

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we cannot treat the rest of the world as proxy battlegrounds, the way that, I think, the U.S. and the Soviet Union too often did during the Cold War. So, looking at Africa, our question should not be, how do we gain relative advantage over China in this country

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The Future of U.S.-China RelationsCouncil on Foreign Relations
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:11:50 PM

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