TY  - BOOK
AU  - ZHANG Baohui
TI  - From defensive toward offensive realism: strategic competition and continuities in the United States' China policy
PY  - 2022///
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - CHINA
KW  - POLICY
KW  - DEFENSIVE REALISM.OFFENSIVE REALISM.DYNAMIC NEOREALISM
KW  - DEFENSIVE REALISM
KW  - UNITED STATES' CHINA POLICY.BEFORE THE PIVOT
KW  - THE PIVOT TO ASIA.THE SHIFT TOWARD COMPETITION
KW  - COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENCES
N2  - This study dispels the common view that the Trump administration has fundamentally reoriented the United States' China policy by emphasizing strategic competition. Instead, the study argues that the Obama administration's pivot initiative began the shift of the United States' China policy from a defensive realist posture toward an offensive realist posture. The Biden administration's China policy inherits the strategic competition approach. This study suggests that the competitive logic of the anarchic international system underlies all three administrations' competition-oriented China policies. Therefore, while there are differences in the China policies of the three administrations, their commonalities and continuities are salient. Structural realism, especially offensive realism and dynamic neorealism, thus offers important insights into the future direction of Sino-US relations
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2021.2010885
ER  -