Tag: Wang Jisi

  • China News Update for July 1, 2012 – U.S.–China relations and South China Sea update

    The first set of links are on things other than the South China Sea. The second set are devoted to that ongoing issue. See also my new post on the Global Times referring to the South China Sea as one of China’s “core interest.” The People’s Daily reported that preparations are on track for the…

  • 'National interests' and dealing with U.S.–China distrust

    From Kenneth Lieberthal, a political scientist now at the Brookings Institution, writing in a new report with Chinese scholar Wang Jisi, “Addressing U.S.–China Strategic Distrust“: Too little understanding of how the Chinese political system actually functions also leads easily to Americans’ viewing Chinese decision making as strategic, coordinated, and disciplined. Disparate conflicting outcomes produced by…