Liberalism and Exceptionalism in American Foreign Policy: Obstacles and Opportunities for Improving US-China Relations

There is an apparent risk that the US and China will each believe that they promote a win-win international order while suspecting the other of “power politics.” However, the real issue is not a simple choice between mutually beneficial interactions and realpolitik. What is really at stake is the question of which rules will govern a post-realpolitik order, and what kinds of power structures are necessary to support it. Here the US and China have much work to do in order to find converging paths.

Alek Chance Research Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/2a9RoQr