{"id":23324,"date":"2017-03-27T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23324"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:53:31","slug":"are-america-and-china-destined-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23324","title":{"rendered":"Are America and China Destined for War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Are America and China Destined for War?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/03\/26\/or-38820.jpg\" alt=\"Are America and China Destined for War?\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"date\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/03\/26\/are-america-and-china-destined-for-war.html\">Are America and China Destined for War?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>In\u00a0his recent book The Improbable War, professor Christopher Coker explains that it is \u201cof vital importance that the possibility of a conflict between China and the United States continues to be discussed.\u201d Coker\u2019s rationale for this is simple: \u201cIf the United States and China continue to convince themselves that war is too \u2018improbable\u2019 to take seriously, it is not they but the rest of the world that may ultimately pay the price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would seem the good professor\u2019s wish is about to be granted. We are about to be treated to what surely will be a media blitz over what can only be described as the most comprehensive book to ever tackle the question of not only whether a US-China war is possible, but what steps Washington and Beijing can take to avoid such a calamity.<\/p>\n<p>Written by one of the world\u2019s most prominent political scientists and strategic thinkers of the day, director of Harvard University\u2019s Belfer Center, Graham Allison, anyone who has been following China in recent years likely guessed such an effort was in the works. The book is hooked on Allison\u2019s popular \u201cThucydides Trap\u201d concept. The trap, as Allison described in a prominent piece for the Atlantic in 2015, is \u201cthe attendant dangers when a rising power rivals a ruling power \u2014 as Athens challenged Sparta in ancient Greece, or as Germany did Britain a century ago.\u201d Allison goes on to warn that in 12 of 16 cases he has studied throughout history, when such a situation takes place, war has been the result.<\/p>\n<p>US\u00a0and China: A relationship in dangerous flux<\/p>\n<p>So what happens in case study number 17? Knowing the odds history has given us, is war between China and America unstoppable?<br \/>\nTo answer such questions, we first need to understand the complexity that is the US-China relationship. In fact, there are two US-China relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are America and China Destined for War? In\u00a0his recent book The Improbable War, professor Christopher Coker explains that it is \u201cof vital importance that the possibility of a conflict between China and the United States continues to be discussed.\u201d Coker\u2019s rationale for this is simple: \u201cIf the United States and China continue to convince themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,15027,8203,827,862],"class_list":["post-23324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-harry-j-kazianis","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23325,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions\/23325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}