Managing a Rising Power: Strains in US China Policy
Jun 2006, Vol. 151, No. 3
By Justin Hempson-Jones and Alexander Neill
Despite rhetoric of a twin-track policy combining elements of engagement and containment, the current Bush Administration's bilateral policy of engagement with China is, in essence, a policy aimed at binding China into the norms and structures of the current international order whilst constraining its more unilateral impulses.
However, this formula is not adequate. The US China relationship must now acknowledge the rise of two serious issues: the management of China's growing military spending and resource security. Or else there lies a clear potential for the breakdown in the relationship, and hence a serious threat of conflict, perhaps even a General War, between the US as the dominant power and China as its rising challenger.
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By Justin Hempson-Jones and Alexander Neill
Despite rhetoric of a twin-track policy combining elements of engagement and containment, the current Bush Administration's bilateral policy of engagement with China is, in essence, a policy aimed at binding China into the norms and structures of the current international order whilst constraining its more unilateral impulses.
However, this formula is not adequate. The US China relationship must now acknowledge the rise of two serious issues: the management of China's growing military spending and resource security. Or else there lies a clear potential for the breakdown in the relationship, and hence a serious threat of conflict, perhaps even a General War, between the US as the dominant power and China as its rising challenger.
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