The Changing Fundamentals of US-China Relations

Medeiros, Evan S.

doi:10.1080/0163660x.2019.1666355

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“…The future of the world order will be determined, to some degree, by the US-China strategic competition. With the dramatic escalation of the bilateral conflict during the Trump era, scholars have made great efforts and employed different theoretical approaches to understand the basic political dynamics of this fundamental change in the relationship between the two great powers (Medeiros 2019). The Cold War analogy is the most frequently referred to theoretical heuristic and has contributed to a better understanding of the essence of the US-China strategic competition.…”

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The Cold War analogy’s misrepresentation of the essence of US–China strategic competition

Yin

2020

China Int Strategy Rev.

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The Cold War analogy’s misrepresentation of the essence of US–China strategic competition

Yin

2020

China Int Strategy Rev.

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“…The question is "how the United States competes: with what tools, on what issues, and at what costs." 87 For the European Union, the task is disproportionately more complex, in part because it was created to overcome great-power competition. Its "natural" tendency in its external relations thus was to export those ideas and institutional mechanisms that have transformed intra-European relations.…”

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Munich Security Report 2020: Westlessness

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“…On the implications of conflicts that can result from economic interdependence, seeWaltz (1979), chapter 7. 5 On the recent "securitization" of US-China relations, seeMedeiros (2019).…”

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US–China Rivalry in the twenty-first century: Déjà vu and Cold War II

Goldstein

2020

China Int Strategy Rev.

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In 2019, US-China relations that had been characterized by a pattern of ups and downs over the past quarter century took a clear and possibly irreversible turn for the worse. 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 China find themselves (systemic or structural constraints) and the fact that the two rivals happen to be the US and China (national or unit-level attributes). Chief among the international constraints are the structural conditions of anarchy and the distribution of power that defines the system's polarity. The national attributes most relevant to understanding the evolution of US-China relations are the geography of the theater where the two countries' vital interests intersect and two aspects of their militarily relevant technological capabilities. Examining these five influences draws attention to reasons for some important similarities but also differences between the current rivalry and the Soviet-American rivalry of the Cold War. It makes clear that a Cold War II, if that is what is emerging, will not simply replicate the rivalry of Cold War I. Unfortunately, this examination also directs attention to some troubling new concerns about the distinctiveness of the new rivalry and the challenges they may present in the coming decades.

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The Changing Fundamentals of US-China Relations

Cited by 54 publications

References 4 publications

The Cold War analogy’s misrepresentation of the essence of US–China strategic competition

The Cold War analogy’s misrepresentation of the essence of US–China strategic competition

Munich Security Report 2020: Westlessness

US–China Rivalry in the twenty-first century: Déjà vu and Cold War II

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