What George Kennan Teaches US Today

Richard Boucher writes: In 1947, George Kennan said containment rested on our maintaining “a spiritual vitality capable of holding its own” among nations. That still applies.  If we advance at the frontier of technology, design, global institutions, trading rules, and power, we will set standards, and China will fit itself in.  If we abandon our leadership or close ourselves off, China will pass us by.  Global power begins at home. – The Cipher Brief