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The Straits Times
China limited: The Statesman
The paper says the gap between Beijing s undoubted strength and its lack of diplomatic finesse is likely to limit its potential influence.
The Chinese national flag is seen in Beijing on April 29, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedJul 9, 2021, 11:15 am SGT
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The U.S.-Vietnam relationship has been on an upward trajectory defined by common interests since diplomatic relations between the two countries normalized a quarter-century ago. Vietnam was one of two Southeast Asian countries specifically referenced in the Biden administration’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, demonstrating the extent to which it has become an increasingly critical part of U.S. defense planning for the region. Bilateral trade has grown over 200-fold since normalization. People-to-people ties have also grown as Vietnam’s tourism industry has developed. Since normalization, Vietnam has welcomed U.S. tourists, former Vietnam War veterans, and even former refugees and their families. U.S. schools and companies in turn have attracted Vietnamese students and recent graduates, who are among the best educated in the world despite the country’s lower level of economic development.
China Daily, August 15, 2020.
Junfu Zhao is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Utah. Zhao can be reached at junfu.zhao [at] utah.edu. The author thanks Rudiger von Arnim, Minqi Li, and Han Cheng for their helpful comments.
Following the Donald Trump administration’s publication of its 2017
National Security Strategy and 2018
National Defense Strategy that designated China as a strategic competitor, the tensions between the United States and China have been heightened, encompassing trade disputes, China’s economic regime and territorial sovereignty, conflicts over geopolitical influences, and even the portrayed confrontation between liberal democracy and authoritarianism.
1 The inauguration of the Joe Biden administration has not significantly changed U.S. foreign policy toward China. In his
Thucydides’ Trap?
Chinese observers now believe that the US is driven by fear and envy to contain China in every possible way
The writer served as executive editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014
When an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power, as a regional or international hegemon, a Thucydides’ Trap is said to be in the making. The term is based on a quote by ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, which theorised that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian power.
As per Thucydides, “it was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this inspired in Sparta, that made war inevitable.”