Following the success of The China Questions, a new volume of insights from top China specialists explains key issues shaping today’s US-China relationship.
For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the US-China relationship? For the global economy and international security? Seeking to clarify central issues, provide historical perspective, and demystify stereotypes, Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi and an exceptional group of China experts offer essential insights into the many dimensions of the world’s most important bilateral relationship.
Ranging across questions of security, economics, military development, climate change, public health, science and technology, education, and the worrying flashpoints of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang, these concise essays provide an authoritative look at key sites of friction and potential collaboration, with an eye on where the US-China relationship may go in the future. Readers hear from leading thinkers such as James Millward on Xinjiang, Elizabeth Economy on diplomacy, Shelley Rigger on Taiwan, and Winnie Yip and William Hsiao on public health.
The voices included in The China Questions 2 recognize that the US-China relationship has changed, and that the policy of engagement needs to change too. But they argue that zero-sum thinking is not the answer. Much that is good for one society is good for both―we are facing not another Cold War but rather a complex and contextually rooted mixture of conflict, competition, and cooperation that needs to be understood on its own terms.
Author(s): Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 463
City: Cambridge
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction. Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi
I. Contextualizing China-Us Relations
1. US-China Relations: How Did We Get Here, Where Can We Go?
2. Is Engagement Still the Best US Policy for China?
3. Why Is China America’s Favorite Threat?
4. How Does China See America?
5. How Is US Policy toward China Made?
6. Who Gets into the Chinese Communist Party, and Who Rises up the Ranks?
II. Global Order
7. Will the World Make Room for China in the New Global Order?
8. Is China Trying to Undermine the Liberal International Order?
9. Is China Changing the International Humanitarian Intervention Regime?
10. Has China’s Economic Success Proven That Autocracy Is Superior to Democracy?
III. China in the World
11. What Are the Implications for the United States as China Reshapes Its Overseas Image?
12. How Can the United States Live with China’s Belt and Road Initiative?
13. What Does China’s Increased Influence in Latin America Mean for the United States?
14. Does the Rise of China Threaten the Transatlantic Partnership?
15. Is China Competing with the United States in Africa?
16. Should Western Nations Worry about the China-Russia Relationship?
IV. Security
17. How Will China’s National Power Evolve vis-à-vis the United States?
18. How Does China Think about National Security?
19. Is China a Challenge to US National Security?
20. How Will Emerging Technologies and Capabilities Impact Future US-China Military Competition?
V. Flashpoints
21. Where Do Divergent US and Chinese Approaches to Dealing with North Korea Lead?
22. How Does Taiwan Affect US-PRC Relations?
23. Why Should Americans Care about Hong Kong?
24. What Should Americans Know about Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang, and What Are US National Interests There?
25. Why Did China Build and Militarize Islands in the South China Sea, and Should the United States Care?
VI. Economics
26. Who Wins and Who Loses in the US-China Trade War?
27. How Does Party-State Capitalism in China Interact with Global Capitalism?
28. Will the Renminbi Rival the Dollar?
29. How Can the United States Protect Its Intellectual Property from China’s Espionage?
30. Is China Catching Up with the West? Or, Why Should We Care about China’s Middle Class?
VII. Public Health, Science, Technology
31. Is US-China Climate Action Possible in an Era of Mistrust?
32. What Can the United States Learn from China about Infrastructure?
33. What Is at Stake in the US-China Technological Relationship?
34. Has China Positioned Itself as a Leader in Big Tech Regulations?
35. What Does It Mean That China Is the First Country to Land on the Dark Side of the Moon?
36. Is US-China Global Health Collaboration Win-Win?
VIII. Society
37. What’s #MeToo in China All About?
38. Why Should the United States Support Civil Society in China and How?
39. Do Confucius Institutes Belong on American Campuses?
40. Should American Universities Engage with China?
IX. Culture
41. Why Is Chinese Popular Culture Not So Popular Outside of China?
42. What Can Western Audiences Learn about China from Its Twenty-First-Century Writers?
43. How Does the Rising Chinese Market Reshape Global Art?
44. Does Religion Matter in Bilateral Relations?
45. Does Race Matter in US-China Relations?
46. How Does the Past Serve the Present in Today’s China?
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
