The recommendations of the State Department paper listed by Axios are not practical steps but pure ideology:
The blueprint: The paper lays out "ten tasks" for the U.S. to accomplish.
- Promoting constitutional government and civil society at home.
- Maintaining the world's strongest military.
- Fortifying the rules-based international order.
- Reevaluating its alliance system.
- Strengthening its alliance system and creating new international organizations to promote democracy and human rights.
- Cooperating with China when possible and constraining Beijing when appropriate.
- Educating Americans about the China challenge.
- Train a new generation of public servants who understand great-power competition with China.
- Reforming the U.S. education system to help students understand the responsibility of citizenship in a complex information age.
- Championing the principles of freedom in word and in deed.
Note especially the points 7 to 10.
They have nothing to do with China. They call for domestic propaganda, more domestic propaganda and even more domestic propaganda.
How brainwashing and stupidifying one's own people is supposed to challenge China is beyond me.
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