{"293321":{"#nid":"293321","#data":{"type":"news","title":"China-US Relations and East Asia Security Dynamic: How it will be more forward-leaning?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZhu Feng, a professor in the School of International Studies at Peking University and the executive director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for South China Sea Studies at Nanjing University, spoke to Georgia Tech students and faculty about Chinese-U.S. relations and East Asian security dynamics on April 24, 2014. The talk was hosted by the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, with opening remarks by Nunn School Professor John Garver.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhu\u0027s comments focused on the current state of U.S.\/Chinese relations, risk factors that could complicate the relationship between these two powers, and how challenges on this front are best addressed. He claimed that U.S. and East Asian perceptions of rising China as a threat are often misguided for several reasons. For one, China\u2019s core challenges exist in the domestic rather than the international sphere, and thus the nationalist rhetoric that surfaces around issues like the Senkaku\/Daioyudao Islands dispute is driven by the leadership\u2019s need to shore up internal political support. China\u2019s domestic realities also limit its freedom of action on the regional and international scene.\u0026nbsp; Second, China\u2019s history is marked by cycles of growth and decline, which calls its potential to function as a long-term threat to the U.S. into question. Third, China\u2019s assertiveness is a spontaneous consequence of its elevation to great power status and is not indicative of deeply-held revisionist ambitions. Fourth, the power disparity between China and the U.S. remains formidable. Finally, China\u2019s increasing openness, demonstrated by its expansion of global economic ties and diaspora of Chinese students in American universities, continues to reshape its political skyline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhu called for the U.S. to view China\u2019s rise with a more balanced and realistic perspective, one that appreciates China\u2019s constraints as a great power and understands that China will never \u201cfall in line\u201d with America\u2019s agenda in the way that other East Asian powers arguably have.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhu Feng is a professor in the School of International Studies at Peking University and executive director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for South China Sea Studies at Nanjing University. Concurrently, Zhu serves as senior advisor to President Wang Jisi of the Center for International \u0026amp; Strategic Studies (CISS) at Peking University. Zhu is a leading Chinese expert on East Asian security, and his research interests include regional security in East Asia, North Korea nuclear issues, China-U.S. relations and Chinese security policy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZhu\u0027s comments focused on the current state of U.S.\/Chinese relations, risk factors that could complicate the relationship between these two powers, and how challenges on this front are best addressed.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Zhu\u0027s comments focused on the current state of U.S.\/Chinese relations, risk factors that could complicate the relationship between these two powers, and how challenges on this front are best addressed."}],"uid":"27751","created_gmt":"2014-04-25 14:21:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:18","author":"Vince Pedicino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"291521":{"id":"291521","type":"image","title":"Zhu Feng","body":null,"created":"1449244289","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:29","changed":"1475894988","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:48","alt":"Zhu Feng","file":{"fid":"199250","name":"feng.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feng_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feng_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":101751,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/feng_0.png?itok=Hf544iV8"}}},"media_ids":["291521"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"92201","name":"Zhu"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJeremiah Granden\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jeremiah.granden@inta.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejeremiah.granden@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jeremiah.granden@inta.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}