Washington a frog in the well

Antithetical to a letter published by The Washington Post on July 3 titled "China is not an enemy", an open letter released last week urged the president of the United States to stay the course on countering China.

By playing up the ideological differences between the two countries, the letter published in the Journal of Political Risk, signed by more than 100 former US military officials, as well as scholars, professors, think tank members and some China watchers, portrays China as an adversary and threat to the US.

What the letter listed as the reasons for the US to delink with China is nothing new, and can be attributed to the Cold War mentality, zero-sum game and hegemonic thinking of the signatories.