China's Search for Stability with America

The Power of Ideas and Ideas of Power: Chinese Think Tanks in Search of Prominence

“…72 Over the past decade or so, Zheng Bijian and other prominent international relations experts, such as Wang Jisi, have argued consistently that economic globalization and the challenges confronting humanity in our time fundamentally have changed world politics. 73 Thus one should reject a Cold War mentality and a 19th-century worldview, which treat international politics as a zero-sum game. The different perspectives of, on the one hand, Zheng Bijian and Wang Jisi and, on the other, Yan Xuetong and Liu Mingfu reflect the increasingly pluralistic thinking that has taken hold in a rapidly changing China throughout the reform era.…”

A grande estratégia Chinesa e os BRICS

“…Nesse sentido, a China tem hoje fortes laços econômicos com o mundo e, especialmente, com os Estados Unidos. Os líderes chineses, por sua vez, aceitaram que operam em uma ordem unipolar e tomaram a decisão de não buscar negociar posições que os EUA considerariam como seriamente prejudiciais a seus interesses (JISI, 2005).…”

Systemic Transitions

“…Basically, this realist strategy argues that the leading state or hegemon should use its considerable political power to prevent its own economic decline and to inhibit or stunt the economic rise of the challenger. Some in China fear that the United States is or will do this ( Jisi 2005: 47, see also Mahbubani 2005). A variation on this strategy is for the leading state to use its privileged diplomatic position to marshal a preponderant coalition against the rising state and isolate it.…”