Building an Empire to Challenge American Hegemony
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Building an Empire to Challenge American Hegemony
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Tianyang Song (Grateful if you go by Tiffany)
Is China Trying to Build an Empire to Challenge American Hegemony?
The U.S hegemony can be dated back to the end of the cold war in the 1970s. It seems that the world
order has been shifted from bipolar to uni-polar in the past few decades. China’s rise is in everyone’s
expectation, also out of expectation. During 2000-2010, the prime goal for the country is to develop
national economy; from 2011-2050,China is trying to achieve the implementation of a comprehensive well-off(全面小康). The discussion of whether the U.S is declining or losing its position and China’s growing power with more assertive foreign policy has become a crucial part of International Political Economy and International Relations. In the essay, I will argue that China is trying to challenge America by building a strong-linked economic, political and socio-cultural empire in the east, such as OBOR, also with balancing and bandwagoning strategy to counter the pressure from the U.S and the whole western-oriented system. The deep analysis of this statement includes U.S’ quit from WTO, China’s active role in International Organizations, the obvious and invisible far-reaching impacts of the OBOR project, and China’s flexible policies in East Asia. I would define the U.S and China are strategic competitors even they are an indispensable trader for each other.
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Key term: U.S Hegemony; One Belt One Road; Sino-us relations; Western-oriented system;
market socialism; state capitalism
Bibliography
- John Ikenberry, “The Rise of the China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal
System Survive?”, Foreign Affairs, January-February 2008. Assessed 26.10.2019
The author admits that China’s rapid development will be a threat to the U.S, also the whole western system
behind it. But he believes it is not necessary to launch a war because the U.S could adapt the institutions to
consider China’s “needs and wants” to respond to its rise. I think the viewpoint from the U.S and liberal countries
also the change they made inspires me how difficult it is for China to challenge.
Starrs, Sean (2015). China’s Rise is Designed in America, Assembled in China
in China’s World2, 2: 9-20. Available at:
https://cityu-hk.academia.edu/SeanStarrs Assessed 26.10.2019
Sean focuses more on the contradictions China has made between capitalism and socialism. I think
China is now state-capitalism and Sean also believes China cannot beat down the U.S now, but the
ambition and the attempt is right there. I would use this resource in the discussion session because it’s
nice and holds a different view than I have seen before.
Hang, Nguyen Thi Thuy. “The Rise of China: Challenges, Implications, and Options for the United States.” Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, vol. 30, no. 1/2, 2017, pp. 47–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26465816. Assessed 26.10.2019
The author thinks that China is employing bandwagon to add its leverages. The U.S is comparatively “lonely”. She argues the possible situations in American way, simultaneously suggests America should be ready for the opportunities to cooperate, but also alarmed to be a response to the threat. I think she also doesn’t think China would surpass America, but obviously, they cannot step on the same road anymore.
Chaisse, Julien and Mitsuo Matsushita, 2018. “China’s ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative: Mapping the World Trade Normative and Strategic Implications,” Journal of World Trade 52, no. 1 (2018): 163–186. Assessed 26.10.2019
This article discusses how this titanic project would bring impacts to China and U.S. For China, there is a large open market so that China could establish economic ties with those developing countries in Europe as a center. The RMB can be internationalized, which challenges the U.S dollar to some extent. For the U.S, it is not good to see China developing western cities and get closer to those countries. I think it is a comprehensive article to illustrate OBOR as a giant project.
“A Post-American World?” Chapter 5 in Ho-fung Hung, The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World, 2016, 115-144. [Download: China Boom post american world.pdf] Assessed 26.10.2019
This article examines why China is not trying to transform the world order, but it’s doesn’t mean China cannot challenge the U.S. Actually since U.S quit WTO, China has taken its place and try to help developing countries increase competitiveness so that the strong power gets less subsides. There will be more countries rely on China in the IOs, and the reason they are eager to be elected in the IOs is that weaker countries want to follow the strong powers. I think this article can help me explain what China strategically is doing.