Many people find it hard to understand why China is acting the way - TopicsExpress



          

Many people find it hard to understand why China is acting the way it is in the East and South China Seas. What does Beijing hope to achieve by alienating its neighbors and undermining regional stability? Let me suggest an answer: China is trying to build what President Xi Jinping calls a new model of great power relations. To understand how this might be the aim of Beijings actions, we have to recognize that under his new model, Xi wants China to wield much more power and influence in Asia than it has for the past few centuries. These things are inherently zero-sum, so for China to have more power and influence, America must have less. This is what Xi and his colleagues are trying to achieve.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:22:58 +0000

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