To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
In the North Korean nuclear crisis, there is a major difference between having leverage and having the ability to use it. China has the former, but not the latter. North Korea has both. If China is to stay above the deepening diplomatic quagmire, it will have to abandon its ad hoc approach to dealing with the crisis and adopt a Chinese-sponsored multilateral road map for negotiating North Korea's nuclear disarmament. The question remains whether Beijing will squander its dwindling diplomatic capital on further ad hoc efforts to bring North Korea back to an agenda-deficient table or start a new phase of road map-focused meetings.
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