“Within about 15 years, China’s economy will surpass America’s and become the largest in the world,” reads the opening line of Kishore Mahbubani’s cover story for this month’s Harper’s Magazine entitled “What China Threat? How the United States and China can avoid war. He continues, "as this moment approaches, meanwhile, a consensus has formed in Washington that China poses a significant threat to American interests and well-being.” In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Kishore Mahbubani, a professor in the practice of public policy at the National University of Singapore, discusses what is driving the US-China conflict and what can be done to ease tensions between the two countries.