By IRNA
Berlin : A leading American neo-conservative thinker does not rule out the likelihood of a war with the communist China, the weekly Die Zeit reported Thursday.
Pointing to China’s ongoing political row with Taiwan, Robert Kagan said, “The Taiwan problem can explode at any moment. Let’s talk about a mid-term danger. It’s not guaranteed that a conflict can be avoided if China becomes more democratic but it will be easier to prevent it.”
According to the German-translation of the Zeit interview, Kagan believes that the US is pursuing a “containment strategy” vis-a-vis China.
He pointed to US strategic alliances with countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia and lately India, all of whom are located in the immediate neighborhood of China.
Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980. He later earned a Masters from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from the American University in Washington, DC.
He is a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Kagan worked at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988) and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985).
Kagan is presently a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.