{"id":8631,"date":"2015-05-30T07:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2015-05-30T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T12:47:14","slug":"the-us-and-china-can-avoid-a-collision-course-if-the-us-gives-up-its-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8631","title":{"rendered":"The US and China can avoid a collision course \u2013 if the US gives up its empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US and China can avoid a collision course \u2013 if the US gives up its empire<\/a><\/h3>\n

The problem isn\u2019t China\u2019s rise, but rather America\u2019s insistence on maintaining military and economic dominance right in China\u2019s backyard<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

To avoid a violent militaristic clash with\u00a0China<\/a>, or another cold war rivalry, the United States should pursue a simple solution: give up its empire.<\/p>\n

Americans fear that China\u2019s rapid economic growth will slowly translate into a more expansive and assertive foreign policy that will inevitably result in a war with the US. Harvard Professor Graham Allison\u00a0has found<\/a>: \u201cin 12 of 16 cases in the past 500 years when a rising power challenged a ruling power, the outcome was war.\u201d Chicago University scholar John Mearsheimer\u00a0has bluntly argued<\/a>: \u201cChina cannot rise peacefully.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the apparently looming conflict between the US and China is not because of China\u2019s rise per se, but rather because the US insists on maintaining military and economic dominance among China\u2019s neighbors. Although Americans like to think of their massive overseas military presence as a benign force that\u2019s inherently stabilizing, Beijing certainly doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n

According to political scientists\u00a0Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell<\/a>, Beijing sees America as \u201cthe most intrusive outside actor in China\u2019s internal affairs, the guarantor of the status quo in Taiwan, the largest naval presence in the East China and South China seas, [and] the formal or informal military ally of many of China\u2019s neighbors.\u201d (All of which is true.) They think that the US \u201cseeks to curtail China\u2019s political influence and harm China\u2019s interests\u201d with a \u201cmilitaristic, offense-minded, expansionist, and selfish\u201d foreign policy.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s regional ambitions are not uniquely pernicious or aggressive, but they do overlap with America\u2019s ambition to be the dominant power in its own region, and in every region of the world.<\/p>\n

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The US and China can avoid a collision course \u2013 if the US gives up its empire The problem isn\u2019t China\u2019s rise, but rather America\u2019s insistence on maintaining military and economic dominance right in China\u2019s backyard To avoid a violent militaristic clash with\u00a0China, or another cold war rivalry, the United States should pursue a simple […]<\/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":[1949,2045,130,259,3520,1439,827,862,891],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-america","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-empire","tag-imperialism","tag-south-china-sea","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","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=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8632,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions\/8632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}