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I just returned from China, where I was the Republican member on the first House delegation to visit since 2019.

Our bipartisan group met with Premier Li Qiang and senior officials to press for dialogue on military-to-military communication, trade, nuclear proliferation and fentanyl.

From the moment I landed, the atmosphere carried unmistakable echoes of the Cold War . The security, the suspicion, the ideological rigidity — it all felt like a throwback to the Soviet Union of the 1980s.

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But, unlike the stagnant Soviet Union of the 1980s, China is still rising . History teaches that when a growing power collides with an established one, the

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