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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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The China Factor

By Matthew Yglesias

Aug 6 2007, 12:21 AM ET Comment



Moira Whelan reminds me of an easily overlooked moment during the YearlyKos Democratic debate when Barack Obama emphasized that thought China is in some sense a competitor, it's not an enemy of the United States and we should strive to avoid turning it into one.

I wholeheartedly agree and think this is by far the biggest issue in this campaign that nobody's talking about. Sentiments about China policy tend not to break down along straightforward party lines. I think Bush's China policy has been mostly okay (certainly a triumph compared to most of the other things he's done) whereas neocons like Bill Kristol and Bob Kagan saw a "National Humiliation" in Bush's unwillingness to gin up a war with China over the EP-3 spy plane incident. Under the circumstances, it'd really be nice to hear what some different candidates think about this issue in some level of detail, but instead Obama made this brief remark and then we heard about China (from him and from the others) in purely economic terms rather than as a foreign policy issue.

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