It involves a balanced approach to China and a determination not to have US foreign policy defined by geopolitical competition
One group of centrists continues to broadly hold this worldview, albeit with updates for the events of the past four years—for instance, they are more focused on Russian interference and human rights abuses inside China.
Contradiction.
We're in the middle of Cold War 2.0 with the Chinese. Xi wants things for China which puts them in direct competition with us and the Western classical liberal internationalist view. Hong Kong set the die. That's an incredibly anti-anything Western manuever regardless of which party is in the White House. Throw on top of it the Democratic Party zeitgeist at the moment is heavily anti-Russian because that's how they can explain the 2016 election result. Our geopolitical relations with Russia will get worse in 2021 than they are now. So you may not want to be in power competition, but it's what you're going to get. The international order the 2 most recent Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama enjoyed is dead and gone and it's not coming back. Some of this is Trump's fault but China's rise to make themselves preeminent power and shape the world as they see it in their image was going to happen regardless of what Trump or Hillary Clinton if she became president did.
Brookings who published that article has in the runup to Hong Kong disappearing as far as being a pseudo-sovereign entity and afteward has on their Lawfare podcast really ramped up talking about China, mostly in a negative fashion. Seems the D.C. liberal intelligentsia have made that decision.
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