US and China’s national security ‘fixation’ has gone too far, Roach warns

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A prominent American economist has cautioned that the United States and China risk developing a “fixation” with national security, a tendency he said was distracting from the domestic challenges facing both countries.“We’ve taken the concept of national security too far,” said Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Centre, at the US-China Hong Kong Forum on Monday.He called on Washington and Beijing to draw a clear distinction between economic and national...