scholarly journals Does the rise of China present a threat to the interests of the United States?

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Fadhila Inas Pratiwi ◽  
Dini Putri Saraswati ◽  
M. Muttaqien
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The United States ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Final Consideration ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
The Rise Of China

The rise of China can be perceived either as a threat or as an opportunity to and for the US, mostly depending on US grand foreign policy interests and its related strategies. If the US feels comfortable living in a multipolar world in which it is considered to be an equal among the major powers, China is more likely to be perceived as a partner. However, if the goal of US foreign policy is to strengthen its position as the sole superpower or even as a hyper-power, and does not choose to recognise other major countries, then the rise of China will be perceived as a threat. Based on this underlying assumption, this article seeks to examine the exact interests of the US: Is it threatened by the rise of China or is it not? This article starts by explaining the grand theories and relating it to the research question. The next explanation examines the economic ties between the two countries. The final consideration is the possibility of military conflict given several recent occurrences, such as the Taiwan and South China Sea (SCS) dispute. This article concludes that the rise of China will threaten the interests of the US. However, it will not necessarily lead to war between them.

scholarly journals Future of US-China Relations: Conflict, Competition or Cooperation?

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Syed Muhammad Saad Zaidi ◽  
Adam Saud
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Eastern Hemisphere ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Rise Of China

In contemporary times, the geo-political agenda and geo-economic strategy of the world is being dominated by the ongoing US-China hegemonic competition. Where the United States is trying to prolong the ‘unipolar moment’ and deter the rise of China; China is trying to establish itself as the hegemon in the Eastern hemisphere, an alternate to the US. The entirely opposite interests of the two Great Powers have initiated a hostile confrontational competition for domination. This paper seeks to determine the future nature of the US-China relations; will history repeat itself and a bloody war be fought to determine the leader of the pack? or another prolonged Cold War will be fought, which will end when one side significantly weakens and collapses? Both dominant paradigms of International Relations, Realism and Liberalism, are used to analyze the future nature of the US-China relations.

Hegemony in Foreign Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Ned Lebow ◽  
Simon Reich
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
Established Role

American realists, liberals, journalists, and policymakers speak of American hegemony as if it were an established role, although a threatened one given the rise of China. They describe hegemony as essential to international political and economic stability, and a role that only America can perform. These claims are highly questionable, as there is no evidence that the United States is a hegemon nor that it has provided the benefits American international relations theorists attribute to a hegemon. To the extent these benefits are provided, it is the result of the collective efforts of numerous states, by no means all of them great powers. American assertions of hegemony are viewed with jaundiced, if not hostile, eyes by other states. Hegemony is a fiction, propagated by Americans to gain special privileges, justify an interventionist foreign policy, support the defense industry, and buttress national self-esteem. In practice, the quest for hegemony is a threat, not a prop, to the global order.

Uncertain Times: The Reconstruction of China–US Relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Weixing CHEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trump Administration

The rise of China has shaken, to some extent, the pillars sustaining the US dominance in the world. Facing structural challenges from China, the United States has responded on three levels: political, strategic and policy. The Donald Trump administration has adopted a hard-line approach while attempting to engage China at the structural level. The China–US relationship is entering uncertain times, and the reconstruction of the relationship could take a decade.

scholarly journals THE RISE OF CHINA A THREAT TO US HEGEMONY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fahim Khan , Anwar Ali , Dr. Hafiz Hammaduddin
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transition Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Transition Theory ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Us Hegemony ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
Peace And War

In this article, there is a brief discussion on how the rising of China's state created a major threat for the United States Hegemony. According to Power Transition Theory (PTT), power is central in understanding the international system as a relative power to demonstrate the prerequisite for peace and war in the international system. So, power is basically an ability to impose on or convince a revolutionary act to comply with demands. The study is a qualitative analysis of the grounded facts and previously produced documents and researches. With the document analysis it is evident that both the countries work on the mutual interests, there is a low possibility of actual war like situation on any of the political or economic grounds between China and the US. China can be considered as an economic superpower if it peruse all its economic expansion plans, on the other hand US will remain on top on the political or military fronts.

One master, one sovereign

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Babones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Vladimir Putin ◽  
The Rise Of China

Contrary to declinist narratives, the dominance of the United States in the contemporary world-system is increasingly solid and stable. The US economy remains vibrant, but the US benefits also from the desire of people to participate in the global economic system that has the United States at its core. The fact that the American Tianxia acts on an individual basis at least as much as on an international one massively privileges US individuals, organizations, and institutions. Others pay this price due to the network externalities gained from membership in the system. These flows counteract political entropy -- the tendency of imperial political systems to disintegrate. The American Tianxia thus does not fit the "new medievalism" model of international relations; as Vladimir Putin protests, it is a unipolar system with "one master, one sovereign." Advocates of a return to multipolarity (including Vladimir Putin) point to the rise of China as their main hope, but forecasts of China's continuing economic rise are vastly oversold.

Hegemonic transition in East Asia? The dynamics of Chinese and American power

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK BEESON
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Power ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Hegemonic Transition ◽  
The Rise Of China

AbstractThe ‘rise of China’ is seen by some observers as a precursor of inevitable hegemonic competition in East Asia. At the very least, it seems likely that China’s influence in East Asia will grow at the expense of the United States. Whether this will eventually amount to a form of ‘hegemonic transition’ is far less clear. It is, therefore, an opportune moment to consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of China and the US in East Asia. This paper suggests that the nature of hegemonic competition and transition is more uncertain and complex than some of the most influential theoretical understandings of hegemony would have us believe.

China’s Rise in Latin America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
He Li
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
Trade And Investment ◽  
Major Target

China’s growing presence in Latin America is among the most visible trends in the Western Hemisphere. Through trade and investment, China has reshaped the economies of several countries in the region, raising concerns both in Latin America and the United States. This study examines Chinese economic involvement in Latin America, focusing on trade, direct investment, and finance, and making five arguments. First, due to weaker growth in both China and Latin America, China’s regional economic expansion will slow down in coming years. Second, China is keen to forge closer ties with Latin America, but the idea that it has become a major target of Chinese expansionism is delusional. Third, Beijing talks a lot about South-South cooperation, but this has been more principle than actual practice. China no longer belongs to the periphery of the global system; it has become part of a semi-periphery. Fourth, some argue that emerging economic ties are detrimental to Latin America. In fact, the rise of China presents both challenges and opportunities for the region’s development. Fifth, there is a false fear that China poses a looming threat to American interests in Latin America. There is little evidence that Beijing seeks to upend U.S. regional dominance.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 191-224
Author(s):  
Michelle Murray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Order ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Rise Of China

This chapter summarizes the book’s main argument, outlines its contribution to international relations scholarship, and applies the argument to current debates about the rise of China. Two positions dominate current debates about US foreign policy and the rise of China: engagement, which calls for integrating China deeply into the global economy and institutional architecture of the international order; and containment, which sees security competition as an inevitable outgrowth of Chinese power, and calls for the United States to preemptively increase its military presence in the region. This chapter argues that by focusing narrowly on China’s economic and military interests, the current debate misses an important aspect of China’s rise because it fails to consider the social motivations of rising great powers. Building on the core argument of this book, it suggests that only by accepting China’s recognition-claims can the United States facilitate China’s peaceful rise. The chapter concludes by exploring how the United States might navigate a foreign policy that both approaches China as a recognized partner in leading the international order and also protects its regional and global interests—and if such recognition is even possible.

The ‘Asia threat’ in the US–Australia relationship: then and now

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-252
Author(s):  
Stuart Rollo
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Imperial Japan ◽  
The Rise Of China

AbstractFor almost a century before the formal alliance between the United States and Australia in 1941, a relationship was being formed around interrelated perceptions of shared identity and economic, political, and strategic interests. Perhaps the single most important factor in the recognition of shared interests lay in the mutually reinforcing fears of a multilayered ‘Asia threat’ that developed in parallel in both countries, originating as a demographic fear over Chinese migration during gold rushes of the 1850s, and progressing to focus on the growing military power of imperial Japan and geostrategic dominance of the Pacific. In recent years, the rise of China has been the central focus of US–Australia alliance, and, in many respects, the security architecture used to confront China is a legacy of the historical ‘Asia threat’. Understanding the historical context of the relationship is necessary for dispelling the anachronistic ‘Asia threat’ perceptions from the contemporary security policy.

Germany: From Civilian Power to a Geo-economic Shaping Power

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen F. Szabo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Export Sector ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Shaping Power ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
Trump Administration

Germany has become a geo-economic power since its unification in 1990. Its foreign policy agenda has been shaped by its economic interests and the role of its export sector. Nevertheless, Russian actions in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe combined with the accession of the Trump Administration in the United States and the rise of China have resulted in a transition in the foreign policy paradigm toward Germany as a shaping power and more of a geopolitical actor which has to balance its economic interests with the new strategic challenges of a newly unstable Europe.

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