Singaporean scholar says Washington's desire to contain China "a strategic error"


PARIS, April 25 (Xinhua): China is not an expansionist power and Washington's desire to contain China is a strategic error, Singaporean scholar Kishore Mahbubani (pic, below) has said.

In an interview with French daily Le Figaro in early April, Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, said that trying to contain China is a strategic error.

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