{"id":15645,"date":"2022-07-22T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15645"},"modified":"2022-07-22T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:48:46","slug":"rivals-within-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/rivals-within-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivals Within Reason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"f-serif ls-0 article-subtitle \">U.S.-Chinese Competition Is Getting Sharper\u2014but Doesn\u2019t Necessarily Have to Get More Dangerous<\/h3>\n<div class=\"row g-0 ls-0 article-byline position-relative\">\n<h3 class=\"f-sans m-0 col-12 col-sm-auto me-sm-4\">By\u00a0<span class=\"position-relative d-inline-block\">Kevin Rudd<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"article-header--metadata-date align-self-center col-6 col-sm-auto\"><time datetime=\"2022-07-20\">July 20, 2022<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In the year and a half since President Joe Biden took office, competition between the United States and China has only intensified. Rather than dismantle former President Donald Trump\u2019s tough policies toward Beijing, Biden has largely continued them, underscoring that the two powers are almost certainly headed for a protracted period of sharp and militarily dangerous strategic rivalry. But that doesn\u2019t mean that the United States and China are moving inexorably toward crisis, escalation, conflict, or even war. To the contrary, Beijing and Washington may be groping toward a new set of stabilizing arrangements that could limit\u2014though not eliminate\u2014the risk of sudden escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Assessing the state of U.S.-Chinese relations at any given time is never easy, given the difficulty of distinguishing between what each side says about the other publicly\u2014often for domestic political effect\u2014and what each is actually doing behind the scenes. Yet despite the harsh and often heated rhetoric, some early signs of stabilization have emerged, including the tentative reconstitution of a form of political and security dialogue aimed at managing tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Such stabilization falls well short of normalization, which would mean restoring comprehensive political, economic, and multilateral engagement. The days of normalization have been consigned to history. But stabilization would nonetheless be significant. It would mean the difference between strategic competition that is managed through steadying guardrails and competition that is unmanaged\u2014that is, driven by a process of push and shove, primarily by each country\u2019s military, in the hope that on any given day no one pushes too far. The question for both sides, and for the countries that are caught in the middle of this titanic struggle for the future of the regional and global orders, is what kind of strategic competition they will pursue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the entire article on the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/china\/rivals-within-reason\">Foreign Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-Chinese Competition Is Getting Sharper\u2014but Doesn\u2019t Necessarily Have to Get More Dangerous By\u00a0Kevin Rudd July 20, 2022 In the year and a half since President Joe Biden took office, competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}