despite China’s rising military and economic power. Nor, he continues, has the United States moved to contain a rising China, preferring a liberal engagement strategy. In the realm of public opinion, on which his overall model concentrates, data indicate that the percep- tion of a Chinese threat has grown in the United States, but they also suggest that this perception is related to a change in the perception of identity rather than a change in the perception of power. Rousseau claims that his findings cor- roborate the computer simulation by demonstrating that media concentration and elite polarization explain the relative consensus in Japan and the deep split in opinion within the United States regarding the Chinese threat.