China Sees U.S. as Competitor and Declining Power, Insider Says
Source: New York Times
BOAO, China The senior leadership of the Chinese government increasingly views the competition between the United States and China as a zero-sum game, with China the likely long-range winner if the American economy and domestic political system continue to stumble, according to an influential Chinese policy analyst.
China views the United States as a declining power, but at the same time believes that Washington is trying to fight back to undermine, and even disrupt, the economic and military growth that point to Chinas becoming the worlds most powerful country, according to the analyst, Wang Jisi, the co-author of Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust, a monograph published this week by the Brookings Institution in Washington and the Center for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University.
Mr. Wang, who has an insiders view of Chinese foreign policy from his positions on advisory boards of the Chinese Communist Party and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, contributed an assessment of Chinese policy toward the United States. Kenneth Lieberthal, the director of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, and a former member of the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton, wrote the appraisal of Washingtons attitude toward China.
In a joint conclusion, the authors say the level of strategic distrust between the two countries has become so corrosive that if not corrected the two countries risk becoming open antagonists.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/world/asia/chinese-insider-offers-rare-glimpse-of-us-china-frictions.html?_r=1
mike_c
(36,281 posts)Sheesh.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)If the Corporations remain in control of our political system, China's view of us as a declining power is correct.
Hopefully the NeoCons won't blow everything up rather than accept their place in the world.
JHB
(37,159 posts)...with honest-to-godless Communists back as a major player, Republicans can't call Democrats "Marxists" without looking like the fringy nutjobs they are, just like the guys who called Ike a commie.
But for now, it's in the hands of those afflicted with chiropteroguano psychosis.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Quick, somebody send them another US factory so they'll stop boasting, that will show them.
dmallind
(10,437 posts)When it comes to "outsourcing" we are the number one recipient by a country mile.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)dmallind
(10,437 posts)Not for that reason of course, but it doesn't hurt.
msongs
(67,401 posts)Diclotican
(5,095 posts)onehandle
That depend of what happened inside China.. A country who have many fault lines, who just wait to be crack open.. Economical, political, social, religious ethical and so one.. Troubles that have been kept under lock and Key for a long time, but who boil under water, all the time..
If I was Chinas leadership, I would use the next 10 year or two, to try to repair all the fault lines China have And also to try to give more chinese the possibility of been part of the "lucky ones". As it is today, more than 900 million chinese are living in poor condition, a long way from the shining cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, to point a few great cities who everyone know about...
US have their own problems that for true - but I believe US to be in a better shape than China, when it all come down to the numbers.. Most of China is still undeveloped, and not by far have the same standard of living av US...
If China think they can bully the rest of the world, to give them dominant power, they are up for a brutal awaking... Everything that is being made in China, can, be build other places, even back in the US if needs araise... And they can continue to sell it, but no one need to buy the goods..
Diclotican
lovuian
(19,362 posts)for War after War after War