US could learn a thing or two from its own diplomacy failings

In his op-ed, "What the United States Can Learn from China", published on the Foreign Policy website last week, Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, has apparently tried to offer US policymakers some food for thought on how to improve the United States' foreign policy.

The two political parties in the US have technically downgraded the otherwise most testing challenge, if not an art, of handling the most consequential bilateral ties with China into a containment strategy that is devoid of flexibility, wisdom and foresight.

The great lengths that Washington has been going to in its efforts to coerce US allies and other countries to jump on its anti-China bandwagon at the cost of bending international laws and rules actually backfires on the US itself. Not to mention the moral burden and material inputs its policy requires.