The Fear of China, Well founded or Imagined? John Mearsheimer #realist

The talk was given in Japan.
The date was December 26th, 2014.
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The context
John Mearsheimer discusses the fear of china.It is clear china in Asia will expand in a similar way to America.America invited China to the World Trade Organization and now wages a war against China.

John Mearsheimer hypothesis on how a war vs China would play out. John Mearsheimer is a structural Realist and finds that the china threat is real and could escalate to nuclear war . China seeks to undermine the Unipolar Moment.China as a rising threat uses nuclear weapons for Deterrence.China threatens the Indo Pacific region.America seeks to balance other powers in the region Against China.US politics are heated up against china leading to Trade war.This is In the eve of the Russian War against China.

During his visit in Japan, John Mearsheimer is asked what he would do as Secretary of State.
John Mearsheimer in the video provides his response.

John Mearsheimer acknowledges that great power politics is back on the table. As such he terms the Western acts as Careless on the eve of great power competition. This is the height of Western Ignorance.

John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation.

Mearsheimer asserts that China's rise will not be peaceful and that the US will seek to contain China and prevent it from achieving regional hegemony. Mearsheimer argues that although containing China militarily is possible, economic containment of China is not.

John Mearsheimer's offensive neorealism intends to fix the "status quo bias" of Kenneth Waltz's defensive neorealism. While both neorealist variants argue that states are primarily concerned with maximizing their security, they disagree over the amount of power required in the process.

Structural realism is often characterized as the view that scientific theories tell us only about the form or structure of the unobservable world and not about its nature. This leaves open the question as to whether the natures of things are posited to be unknowable for some reason or eliminated altogether.

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[MrTaloul]

He is absolutely right, finally some real and logical and honest analysis...

[AlexanderKoryagin]

As always, thank you very much for these videos!

[thehturt]

Yes the realism is really what it counts. Wishfulness thinking is good but only when backed by realism. That's it.

[zjune]

Dr. John Mearsheimer is understandably lacking of the perspective of historical sociology, and just like many of the rest, intentionally or unintentionally, cutting off the past. We have been around for thousands of years. Historically speaking, what have we done to Asian neighbors, and to the world?

[eleonoraformatoneeszczepan]

... mates, can't live with them can't live without them ... ? ... hehehe

[internationaldaily]

Chinese are realists? They are smart, the smartest, and you are invited there... because you said you are among your own kind. You said China will behave like all great powers, just like the American and the European hegemons... though? I beg to differ. A little country on the other side of the world attacked and colonized Indonesia. It was Holland. China, Indonesia's neighbor to the North has lived with Indonesia for thousands of years, but never colonized Indonesia but instead, for example, sent a special envoy Admiral Zheng He, a Muslim to make friends. [There have been many Chinese living in Indonesia but until the Americans and Europeans stirred up trouble by meddling and causing troubles and racial split they have been living very well together peacefully and harmoniously.] During the Ming Dynasty, their naval fleets were far bigger and superior to those of the Europeans which were just emerging only.

You may be more cynical and say it was to seek and spread influence. Well, it's good and not a bad thing really. Chinese think like realists because you must know how other people behave and then you know how to react and seek peace, prosperity or whatever. As a realist, you probably are the same but you can't say it? You have to prepare for war to avoid war. As a realist you think in black and white, in binary terms, and even the Chinese were the first to think that way but look at the Yin and Yang symbol and you can see the significant as well as subtle differences.

Nations, big powers rise and fall, and that seems to be part of the natural cycle but when you fall you should be able to rise again. It is absolutely futile for the US to go against the rising tide of the Chinese.