This change has provoked debate about whether China and the US have already become rivals, perhaps adversaries, in a new cold war. I examine five underlying influences shaping the newly intensifying rivalry. These influences reflect key features of the international context within which the US and ...
This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s.\nTrade and containment may summarise the new relation that communist China moulded with the capitalistic West in the late 1970s. Id...
China’s focus on domestic energy sources (nuclear, hydro, wind and solar) and electric vehicles can largely be explained by the need to lessen its dependence on imported oil and gas, as well as concerns about air pollution and to a lesser extent climate change. Deteriorating relations with t...
China-US relationsCold WarHistorical analogiesOf all the historical precedents that have been invoked in recent years to make sense of US–China relations, which is the most suggestive? This article argues that the Cold War analogy, which frames the US–Soviet strategic rivalry between 1947 and ...
BEIJING (AP) — Antagonisms between the U.S. and China are rattling governments around the world, prompting a German official to warn of “Cold War 2.0” and Kenya’s president to appeal for unity to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
US and China need contact, not cold warThis April, a US congressman used budget negotiations to ram through a potentially unconstitutional assault on the president's ability to conduct scientific diplomacy. A bill was passed stipulating that, until September 2011 at least, no appropriated funds ...
Morrison disagreed with many in Washington that the United States was in a new Cold War with China. Morrison said the “circumstances are quite different.” He had no answers for how China’s push for power in the South China Sea, on the Indian border and in Hong Kong should be handl...
Avoiding a US-China Cold War (Continued) 避免中美冷战(续) America historicall has acted as if it could participate in or withdraw from international affairs at will. In the Chinese perception of itself as the Middle Kingdom, the idea of the sovereign equality of states was unknown. Until th...
L3-1 Avoiding a US-China Cold War (Excerpt) 避免美中冷战 The upcoming summit between the American and Chinese presidents is to take place while progress is being made in resolving many of the issues before them, and a positive communique is probable. Yet both leaders also face an opinion ...
Since June, United States and China’s diplomatic ties have deteriorated rapidly across a range of fronts, not just trade but also military and politics. It may not be the start of the next Cold War, at least not yet, but relations between the two sides have been plunged into an unprec...