Anti-China Rhetoric Distracts Washington—and Boosts Beijing

This article is significant because written by Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Obviously the article is written from a U.S.'s politician's standpoint so it's itself heavy in rhetoric like "China’s malicious actions" or "gross human rights abuses", and the author is obviously someone who buys into a worldview where U.S. hegemony is desirable.

A top US politician acknowledges the existence of an "unconstructive, hypocritical, and even dangerous anti-China rhetoric and policy", warning against "a new competition about who can be the biggest fearmonger about the threats China poses".

He shares his worry that in such a hyper-hawkish atmosphere it "takes is one lapse of communication, one collision, or one accident to escalate into something catastrophic". And he also writes that "war with China is not inevitable, but it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy".

In short, his point is: our hatred and fear blinds us, and could prove immensely destructive.