The China Card: Playing Politics with Sino-American Relations

Trubowitz, Peter; Jungkun, Seo

doi:10.1002/j.1538-165x.2012.tb00724.x

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“…It had already achieved years of astounding economic growth to become the world’s second largest economy and was posing strategic challenges to the United States in the West Pacific. Moreover, the Great Recession that hit the United States and controversies over China’s unfair economic practices were not only introducing significant economic tensions between the two states but also creating thorough anti-Chinese sentiments among the American people (Trubowitz and Seo 2012). Under these circumstances, the Obama administration might have had strategic and economic incentives to reconsider economic engagement toward China.…”

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A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China

Kim¹

2023

Perspect. polit.

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Structural realists accuse U.S. economic engagement with China as a mistake driven by liberal idealism and lack of realism. I suggest that this increasingly popular narrative reflecting the traditional idealism-realism distinction is misplaced. First, liberal approaches to international relations can clash with each other when a democratic state engages with an authoritarian state, and engagement is justified by one strand of liberalism—economic interdependence liberalism—whereas a different liberal perspective—democratic peace liberalism—opposes economic engagement with an oppressive regime. Second, realism—in particular, structural realism—posits that important state behaviors reflect the need to attain more relative power than others. Then, if economic engagement better serves a state’s relative capacity vis-à-vis other states, economic exchanges with a potential strategic contender would be an unavoidable choice. The liberal case for economic engagement is much more restrictive than it is often articulated, while a structural realist case for engagement can be convincingly made. For about two decades since the mid-1990s, U.S. administrations defended economic engagement with China not only with economic interdependence liberalism but also by utilizing an argument in line with the structural realist case for engagement. Blaming one foreign policy idea as responsible for today’s strategic difficulties is misleading.

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A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China

Kim¹

2023

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“…The reform was finally ratified in 2015, but in the meantime China's unilateralism was reinforced, as highlighted by its decision to launch the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank as an explicit, regional alternative to the IMF and the World Bank. 44 Domestic politics also greatly affected, and in fact derailed, the attempt to correct, at least in part, some of the monumental asymmetries of the current economic system. As we have seen, Obama's response to the crisis -and the 2009 stimulusaimed at altering a condition, that of the U.S. as voracious "empire of consumption", which had proved to be unsustainable.…”

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Dollars, Arms, Words: Barack Obama and the Dilemmas of American Hegemony

Pero

2018

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This article discusses the foreign policy of Barack Obama and the basic elements and contours of what can be described as a putative “Obama Doctrine”. It argues that, while never precisely stated and outlined, this doctrine constituted an attempt to come to terms with the final manifestation of some ingrained and, after the 2008 global economic crisis, inescapable contradictions and flaws of the model of hegemony the United States had built and projected since the 1970s. To address this novel situation, and the multiple arcs of crisis the U.S. was facing, a radical strategic, diplomatic and discursive shift was needed. Cognisant of it, Obama pursued this change, although not always consistently or successfully, achieving results that appear all the more remarkable when compared with the foreign policies of his predecessor and, after almost two years in office, his successor.

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“…U.S. politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, never hesitate to use the "China card" especially during elections and economic tough times to score political points and to divert attention from U.S. domestic issues. 53 The CPC is doing the same thing in its propaganda against the United States to deflect attention from China's own troubles. Nevertheless, both countries seek to maintain growth and protect their national interests.…”

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Dancing with the Dragon: U.S.-China Engagement Policy

Fong¹

2013

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The China Card: Playing Politics with Sino-American Relations

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A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China

A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China

Dollars, Arms, Words: Barack Obama and the Dilemmas of American Hegemony

Dancing with the Dragon: U.S.-China Engagement Policy

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