America’s Irrational Expectations About China’s Rise
November 21st, 2009
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Posted in: China, Great Power Relations, India, Iran, Pakistan, United States
Tags: China, Deng Xiaoping, East Asia, Energy Reserves, Equity Oil, George W. Bush, Global Economic Problems, India, Iran, Military Issues, Multilateralism, Nuclear Program, Pakistan, PRC, President Barack Obama, Taliban, Taoguang Yanghui, United States
President Barack H. Obama’s recently concluded trip to East Asia has created an irrational buzz in the American media about how the declining hegemon is increasingly behaving as such, and how China seems to be exploiting that perception to further its own advantages. The second part of this buzz is not contentious, since all great [...]