This compelling assessment of U. S.-China relations is essential reading for anyone interested in the continuing future of the globalized globe.

Many see China’s rise as a threat to the U. S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues rather that the real challenge lies in dissuading China from local hostility while eliciting its global co-operation. Drawing on years of scholarship or grant and experience being a older diplomat, Christensen gives a deep perspective on China’s armed service and about The China Problem: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power economic capability. Assessing China’s political outlook and proper goals, Christensen displays how nationalism and the threat of local instability influence the party’s decisions about regional global affairs. If China obstructs worldwide efforts to confront nuclear proliferation, civil issues, economic instability, and weather change, those attempts will likely fail; but if China merely declines to support such efforts, the issues will grow vastly more complicated.

Articulating a balanced strategic approach along with perceptive historical analysis, Christensen identifies how exactly we might form China’s choices in the arriving decades so that it plays a part in the international system from which in benefits a lot.