The U.S. should be ‘more confident’ and less worried about losing ground to China, says Peking University expert

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The U.S.-China rivalry has produced an “over-securitization of almost everything,” a leading Chinese strategist said Tuesday, adding that the current moment echoes the period leading up to the Second World War.

“In technological innovation, the U.S. has many opportunities and should be more confident in competing [with China],” Yu Tiejun, president of Peking University’s Institute of International and Strategic Studies, said at the Asia New Vision Forum in Singapore on Sept. 29.