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One Belt One Road- What China needs to do to get USA on board

Image credits- VOA One Belt One Road Initiative is a Chinese initiative to link China to Europe through a series of transnational road and sea lines. But China has yet to attract the main economic players including USA, Europe, India and others to participate in the venture, whose participation is imperative for the project to succeed. The National Interest takes a deeper look as how and what China should do and the steps they need to take to make the project a reality and viable. ( To read the entire article, click here .......)

This is How a Bloody U.S.-China War Could Start ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Chen Pokong)

USS John C Stennis ( Image credits- United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Chen Pokong Editor's note: The following is a translation of Chapter 14 of the book If the U.S.and China Go to War《假如中美开战》 by the author and analyst Chen Pokong. The current volume was published in Chinese in 2013 and was later translated to Japanese. The chapter sketches the hypothetical beginnings of a conflict scenario between the United States and China. In it, the U.S. responds to provocative Chinese cyberattacks by launching one of its own, tearing down the Great Firewall. In response, Chinese authorities clamp down Internet access completely, which America quickly responds to. Ultimately, regime-organized street violence endangers the lives of American consular staff, and U.S.-China relations quickly descend from the current modus vivendi to outright hostilities. While both the United States and China can be expected to avoid going to war, it’s by no means dif

China Expects the U.S. To Roll Over ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Joseph A. Bosco)

Image credits- VOA Source- The National Interest Author-  Joseph A. Bosco Former Pacific Commander and former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has rendered yet another valuable public service, this time as head of Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (SPF). The organization has produced a comprehensive report assessing China’s evolving strategic posture and presenting alternative scenarios for the U.S.-Japan alliance response to the ensuing threats and opportunities. While the paper is dispassionate and clear-eyed about the risks and openings presented by China's rise, the implications are ominous. The paper posits four possible outcomes for a future China: a powerful and benevolent state; a powerful and aggressive state; a weak and inward-looking state, or a weak and aggressive state. The study offers a caveat, however: “It is dangerous to base an Alliance strategy on a single future for the China of 2030 It will not fall neatly into any of the four alte

The Right Way to Sanction China ( Source- The National Interest / Authors- Zack Cooper & Eric B. Lorber)

Credits- VOA Source- The National Interest Author-  Zack Cooper & Eric B. Lorber OVER THE LAST five years, the United States has struggled to influence Chinese behavior. Washington’s responses to Beijing’s increasingly assertive activities—ranging from economic espionage to artificial island construction—have been largely ineffective. Yet U.S. leaders are now considering a new option: economic sanctions. Conventional wisdom holds that the U.S.-Chinese economic relationship is “too big to fail” and that Washington therefore has little economic leverage with Beijing. Indeed, U.S. policymakers should be realistic that extensive sanctions against China would be unwise and infeasible. Nevertheless, certain limited, conduct-based sanctions may be able to shape Chinese behavior at an acceptable cost. The surprising aspect of the debate in Washington over whether to sanction China is that it took so long to emerge; within the last decade, the United States has sanctioned

China Paying ‘Close Attention To US Spy Plane Deployment In Singapore’ ( Source- Eurasian Review / PANARMENIAN)

United States Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Greg L. Davis) Source- Eurasian Review Author- PANARMENIAN China’s military is paying “close attention” to an agreement between the United States and Singapore to deploy the U.S. P8 Poseidon spy plane to the city state and hopes the move does not harm regional stability, the defense ministry said, according to Reuters. “We are paying close attention to how the relevant situation develops, and hope bilateral defense cooperation between the relevant countries is beneficial to regional peace and stability and not the opposite,” the ministry said in a brief statement late on Tuesday. The foreign ministry of China, which is at odds with Washington over the South China Sea, said on Tuesday the move was aimed at militarizing the region. In a joint statement after a meeting in Washington on Monday, December 7, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen welcome

Managing U.S.-China Relations? Challenging. Picking a Good Guidebook? Easy: The China Challenge ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Andrew K. Erickson)

The forbidden city ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Rabs003) Source- The National Interest Author- Andrew K. Erickson Rigorous, measured, readable scholarship is always in insufficient supply generally. It is particularly so concerning the vital issue of U.S.-China relations. The world is awash in books on the twenty-first century’s most important bilateral relationship, but even amid this torrent The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power by Princeton University professor Thomas J. Christensen represents a unique contribution. Given the difficulties inherent in its weighty subject, the volume will remain relevant for years to come. Above all, it offers Christensen’s unique perspective as a leading scholar on the topic who has also served as a high-level diplomat—namely, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. Christensen writes clearly, in active voice. He subst