Great Power Politics Lecture 11: Future Challenge: U.S.-China Military Competition

This is the 11th Lecture in our Great Power Politics series with the title “Future Challenge: U.S.-China Military Competition”

Homework:
Please listen to the Harvard Kennedy School Policy Cast Episode 225 STAYING POWER: TONY SAICH ON 100 YEARS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY this is an excellent analysis about the past, present and future of the Chines Communist Party and its geopolitical consequences, based on an interview with the Harvard Kennedy School Professor Tony Saich. You can find the podcast here:
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/policycast/staying-power-tony-saich-100-years-chinese-communist-party

Class Readings:
Dyer, Geoff, “US v China: is this the new cold war?” The Financial Times, February 20th 2014
Steinberg, James B. and Michael O’Hanlon, “Keep Hope Alive,” Foreign Affairs, July/August, 2014　

Recommended

Page, Jeremy, “In Pacific Drills, Navies Adjust to New Arrival: China,” The Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2014
General Yao Yunzhu, “Boost for Sino-US military ties,” China Daily, June 17, 2013
Nye, Joseph S. “A smarter way to deal with China,” The Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2013
Allison, Graham. “Avoiding Thucydides’s Trap,” Financial Times, August 22, 2012
Xuetong, Yan, “How China Can Defeat America,” New York Times, November 21, 2011
Jisi, Wang and Kenneth Lieberthal. “Addressing US-China Strategic Distrust.” The Brookings Institute. March 30, 2012.
Nye, Joe. “China’s Rise Doesn’t Mean War.” Foreign Policy, January/February 2011.
Ross, Robert S. “The Problem with the Pivot: Obama’s New Asia Policy is Unnecessary and Counterproductive,” Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 2012
Speech of President Barack Obama, Canberra, November 2011

Further Exploration:

Mirski, Sean. “Stranglehold: The Context, Conduct and Consequences of an American Naval Blockade of China,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Feb 1