Posing Problems Without Catching Up: China's Rise and Challenges for U.S. Security Policy

摘要: Since the early 1990s, American scholars and strategists have debated whether People’s Republic of China (PRC) will pose a security threat to United States its regional interests in East Asia next few decades. Although many focused on intentions as well capabilities, most prevalent component debate is assessment China’s overall future military power compared with that other Asian powers. So conferences been held papers written discussing would become “peer competitor” or “near peer arena, “regional hegemon” towering over cowed neighbors threatening region increasing importance States.1 Posing Problems without Catching Up Thomas J. Christensen