Yale Daily News

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Column got China’s history, intentions wrong

Published Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Upon reading Matthew Klein’s opinion column about China (“U.S. must not be blind to China threat,” 3/5), my immediate reaction was mild disbelief. Although my four years at Yale College have taught me to lower my expectations for rational discourse about international affairs, the comically bad factual accuracy and logic in Klein’s piece was nonetheless sufficient to “shock and awe,” to borrow a phrase from the U.S. military.

Perhaps Klein chose conveniently to ignore the fact that the United States still spends about nine times as much on its military than China, according to the...

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