{"id":5200,"date":"2018-12-10T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T04:07:41","slug":"us-china-competition-is-all-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/us-china-competition-is-all-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"US-China competition is all about us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>We are not entering a new Cold War, despite both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/16\/politics\/xi-pence-cold-war-apec-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese President Xi<\/a>\u00a0and US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/josh-rogin\/wp\/2018\/11\/13\/pence-its-up-to-china-to-avoid-a-cold-war\/?utm_term=.e351be5c4c43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vice-President Pence<\/a>\u00a0finding the term a useful rhetorical tool.\u00a0The Americans have decided to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/templatelab.com\/national-security-strategy-final\/\">compete<\/a>\u00a0against China because they think the last two decades of cooperation has failed.\u00a0The Trump Administration, though, is careful to say that competition does not mean conflict.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-inner__quote--right\">\n<p>Cooperation is where two states work together for the common good.\u00a0Conflict involves a clash between hostile entities. Competition is different to both. Competition is not between two alone but instead a contest between two states over a third party or object. A sporting analogy may help: athletes compete on a playing field to win a prize. They don\u2019t fight each other directly as during conflict but instead seek to gain an external object while denying it to the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The prize America and China both seek is clear: global leadership. They don\u2019t want to fight each other. Instead they are quarrelling over who leads the international system. Leadership, however, is something others grant; it cannot be achieved by edict or force.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/uschina-competition-all-about-us\">US-China competition is all about us<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0article at the Lowy Interpreter, written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| We are not entering a new Cold War, despite both\u00a0Chinese President Xi\u00a0and US\u00a0Vice-President Pence\u00a0finding the term a useful rhetorical tool.\u00a0The Americans have decided to\u00a0compete\u00a0against China because they think the last two decades of cooperation has failed.\u00a0The Trump Administration, though, is careful to say that competition does not mean conflict. 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