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How Should the US Think About China?
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Michael Armacost, member of the President Jimmy Carter’s administration for East Asian and Chinese affairs, the former US ambassador to Japan 1989-1993, and Director of the Brookings Institute – a Washington think tank 1995-2002, now a senior fellow at Stanford University gave a talk with the above title on July 30, 2010. It is a level-headed, even-handed, and dispassionate analysis of US-China relations in the past and for the future. Residents of any country tends to view the world through the filters of the media of their own country. Just try to listen to the reports of the same world news from CNN, BBC, Deutsche-Wella, and CCTV, you will get an idea. Thus, it is worthwhile sometime to see the world from a different viewpoint. I recommend this talk highly. It can be downloaded from http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/how_should_we_think_about_china
Here are some personal observation I gathered from the speech:
1. China is not a military threat to the US in the near future.
2. China is currently interested in peace and stability and overcoming various internal challenges of her own and not in territorial expansion and influence.
3. China currently prefers to maintain a relatively low international profile and is not willing or ready to assume her share of international public goods and responsibilities as the #2 economic power of the world
4. Improving research and university education in China will take a long time
5. China’s rise as a wake-up call for the US in the sphere of economic competition and cooperation
While none of these are particularly new to experienced China experts, I thought it is worthwhile for regular Chinese readers to see how others view China.
Notes added 9/8/2010: Here is another view about China from England. But you need to read both the text and related comments to get a balanced view
https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1565-354853.html
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