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The X Factors: How Third Parties Destabilize US-China Relations

The X Factors: How Third Parties Destabilize US-China Relations

(Photo Credit: Flickr/US State Department) (BGF) - In this article, published in The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi argues that third parties, namely the Philippines, Japan, and North Korea, have the potential to destabilize U.S.-Chinese relations. As Tiezzi notes, the U.S....

Reinventing US-China Relations: Mission Plausible?

Reinventing US-China Relations: Mission Plausible?

(Photo Credit: Flickr/US Department of State) (BGF) - In this article, featured in The Diplomat, Jin Kai addresses the challenges facing the U.S. effort to reinvent its relations with China. Kai notes that Max Baucus, the new U.S. Ambassador to China, strives to...

Is the China-Japan relationship ‘at its worst’?

Is the China-Japan relationship ‘at its worst’?

(Photo Credit: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) (BGF) - Earlier this year the Chinese Foreign Minister, Fu Ying, remarked that China's relationship with Japan was "at its worst". Taking that statement as his starting point Ian Bremmer analyzes China and Japan's current...

Europe 1914: Lessons for China and Japan in 2014

Europe 1914: Lessons for China and Japan in 2014

                              (Photo Credit: MARK RALSTON/RIE ISHII/AFP/Getty Images)(BGF) - In this article, featured in The Globalist, J.D. Bindenagel looks to Europe in 1914 in an attempt to distill lessons for Chinese-Japanese relations. As Bindenagel notes, the...

US-China Relations: Thucydidean Trap or Prisoner’s Dilemma?

US-China Relations: Thucydidean Trap or Prisoner’s Dilemma?

(Photo Credit: Flickr/The White House) (BGF) - Often, the current relationship between the U.S. and China is viewed as a Thucydidean Trap - essentially a struggle for power between two powers. In this article Shannon Tiezzi looks back at the U.S.-Chinese diplomacy and...

Obama’s Asian Pivot in Peril?

Obama’s Asian Pivot in Peril?

(Photo Credit: Reuters) (BGF) - Recently BU Today published an article by Thomas U. Berger, Associate Professor of International relations at Boston University. In this article Professor Berger discussed the U.S.-Japanese security relationship and China's increasingly...