A New Cold War?: Congressional Rhetoric and Regional Reactions to the U.S.-China Rivalry

The Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab (SNAPL) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) cordially invite you to attend a symposium on A New Cold War?: Congressional Rhetoric and Regional Reactions to the U.S.-China Rivalry.

This symposium will present fresh insights into pressing geopolitical issues of our time by exploring evidence from a large-scale, comparative computational analysis of Congressional discourse on U.S. rivals challenging the notion of a new Cold War between the United States and China. Scholars and experts will also examine how U.S.-China tensions impact attitudes toward China among citizens of U.S. allies within the Asia-Pacific region, based on extensive survey data covering multiple Asia-Pacific countries.

This conference is co-organized by the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab (SNAPL) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

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[AlexisTurnette]

The pushback at the end is really what redeems this. Her study is just too abstract for serious consideration. People discuss those things which are in contention, things they agree upon or that are patently obvious tend to get little mention. Worse, the US has a foreign policy with China in which they refrain from making declarative positions which can be negatively inferred, we have been trying for fifty years to be good neighbors and our rhetoric mostly, though not always, reflects this. That isn't even to take into consideration that we are talking about different generations of politicians who served under drastically different conditions dealing with two entirely different nations.

Her argument strikes me as designed specifically to arrive at a singular conclusion.

[FredHosea]

The war metaphor is obsolete. The world can't afford another generation of wasteful competition. Collaboration is the key, win-win strategy in a world of polycrisis trends. Nationalistic egotism and paranoia promotes the wrong leaders and skills.

[tomchen]

China expands by defending the age-old territory boundaries and by promoting negotiations with neighoring nations when there are disputes.

[Amos-oh]

I'm wondering how much do they really know china, when they talk so many topics about china.

[eugene_dudnyk]

Analogies drive the book sales. Why would one need to limit the set of traits that current situation has, to the set of traits that are cherry-picked from some analogy? Arguing about some analogy being better than the other one, is absurd. Why not just honestly say “please fire me, I can only copy-paste from history books”?

[brianlee]

By this subject 'International Relation or Study', how many garbage PhDs have you produced?

[jasonluojason]

China is a peace-loving country that has never initiated wars against other nations. Instead, it has always been invaded by foreign aggressors. We cherish peace and do not desire war

[PhilipWong]

Who is winning this rivalry between the world's biggest debtor and the world's biggest creditor? Lawyers are playing Tic-Tac-Toe while engineers are playing GO.

The U.S. is the world's largest debtor, with a NIIP (Net International Investment Position) of -$16 trillion. China (including Hong Kong) is the largest creditor, with a NIIP of $4.3 trillion, followed by Japan, Germany, and Taiwan. The U.S. last had a positive NIIP in 1988 and a trade surplus in 1975. The U.S. debt grows by about $5-7 billion daily, and the trade deficit averages $2-3 billion per day.

Western scarcity win-lose mindset vs Eastern (sans Japan) abundance win-win mindset.

The West defeats itself by its need for endless wars and conflicts.

[MuratGonullu-lx]

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