Clemens Jr., Walter C

Abstract
US politicians, business people, farmers, university recruiters, policy analysts, and others who are mesmerized by the statistics of economic growth ponder how to respond to a China that is steadily becoming richer, stronger, and aggressively self-confident. Potential answers-ideas, insights, and advice are available from dozens of experts who offer a bevy of divergent explanations of the past and present and significantly different prognoses and policy recommendations.
A solid overview of many aspects of relations between the ailing superpower and the rising power is David Shambaugh’s Tangled Titans: The United States and China (Shambaugh 2013). All but two chapters of this edited volume are by US scholars, but the major options-cooperation, competition, limited conflict-are outlined by Shambaugh and Wu Xinbao of Fudan University. Shambaugh warns, however, that mutual distrust is pervasive in both Washington and Beijing. Few bureaucratic actors in either government have a strong mission to cooperate.
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