China Us Relations

Intro :

China's national power is growing rapidly and today's China is no means an « outsider », as it used to be in the beginning of the 1980s. China is in general a status quo power and feels comfortable with most current international norms and institutions.

The paradox is: as China comprehensively integrates into international society and actively participates in global and regional multilateral institutions, there has been no clear sign of linear progressing relations between China

and the United States.

Ever since the early 1990s, China's rapid economic growth has drawn the attention of the rest of the world. For many states, a rising China indicates great uncertainty in the future and a potential threat because most of the theories assume that a rising power is naturally « revisionist » toward the « status quo » international order.

In general terms, states deal with international order in three ideal ways: integration, revision, and separation. The first, integration, refers to national strategies that accept the dominant principles, rules, and norms of what Hedley Bull called « international society. » Typically such states are seen as « status quo, » « satisfied, » or « conservative » powers based on their desire to work within the international system. A second category includes those states that analysts refer to as “dissatisfied” or « revisionist, » but the meaning is the same: they involve efforts to fundamentally revise the international system. Such revision typically breeds conflict since other countries are prone to defend that same order. A third approach is seen in states that attempt to remove or separate themselves from the prevailing international norms and practices, much as Myanmar has done in the Contemporary period.

Will growing power lead Beijing to challenge international norms, rules and institutions-possibly generating dangerous conflict among major powers?

Or might China's integration in the international economy, its...