China and America: Destined for Conflict? (eBook)

This book explores the possibility and feasibility of building a new model of major-country relations between China and the United States, which is of great significance to the sound interaction between the two countries and the preservation of peace and stability of the world. In early June 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama reached a consensus on building a new model of major-country relations at the historical Sunny lands meeting in California. In the years that followed, the two leaders were committed to that goal despite the different interpretations in its substance. How is the new model of major-country relations conceptualized and developed? What renders it possible? Is the major-country conflict inevitable? These are the basic issues addressed in this book. Now, China-US relations are at a critical juncture. The international community is watching the world's two largest economies and is quite concerned about the future of one of the world's most complicated bilateral relationships. This timely publication of Professor Tao Wenzhao provides us with a realistic approach to managing this vital relationship in a candid and balanced way.

Professor Tao Wenzhao is a renowned scholar on the history of China-US relations, an honorary academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and senior fellow of the Institute of American Studies, CASS. He served as the deputy director at the Institute from 1994 to 2003 and as secretary general of the Chinese Association of China-US HistoryStudies until 2012. He was born in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province in February 1943 and graduated from Department of Foreign Languages in Hangzhou University in 1964.

From 1982 to 1984, he studied the history of China-US relations in Georgetown University and Stanfordas a visiting scholar. From September to December 1993, he conducted research on China's foreign relations during the war to resist Japanese aggression at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in University of London. From June to September, 2002, he was as a visiting professor in the Wilson Center in Washington.

Professor Tao has extensive publications, which includeThe China-Japan-U.S. Triangular Relationship and the Taiwan Question (1949-2010) (2021), A History of China-US Relations (1911-2000) (Three editions in 2016, 2007, 2004 respectively), China's Foreign Relations During the War to Resist Japanese Aggression (co-author, 2015, 2009), American Policy Making Process for Post-Cold War China: The Role of US Think Tanks (co-author, 2014), Exploring the Secrets of China-US Relations (2014), Contemporary Studies of China-US Relations (co-author, 2012), American Policy Toward China After the End of the Cold War (ed. 2006),FRUS Documents on US China Policy (ed., 2005) (Chinese translation, Three Volumes), etc. He also published numerous journal articles and conference papers on American foreign policy and China-US relations.

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This book explores the possibility and feasibility of building a new model of major-country relations between China and the United States, which is of great significance to the sound interaction between the two countries and the preservation of peace and stability of the world. In early June 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama reached a consensus on building a new model of major-country relations at the historical Sunny lands meeting in California. In the years that followed, the two leaders were committed to that goal despite the different interpretations in its substance. How is the new model of major-country relations conceptualized and developed? What renders it possible? Is the major-country conflict inevitable? These are the basic issues addressed in this book. Now, China-US relations are at a critical juncture. The international community is watching the world's two largest economies and is quite concerned about the future of one of the world's mostcomplicated bilateral relationships. This timely publication of Professor Tao Wenzhao provides us with a realistic approach to managing this vital relationship in a candid and balanced way.