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From Tacit Allies to Strategic Competitors: Post-Cold War Transformation of Sino-US Dynamics

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US-China Strategic Competition

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Sino-US strategic competition, manifest in political, diplomatic, military and cultural arenas, animates international security studies. This chapter introduces the mutually-reinforcing dynamics, illuminating the evolution of a two-decade-long tacit anti-Soviet alliance to an often-unstated rivalry, first for regional domination in the Asia-Pacific and, subsequently, for a new, as yet undefined, strategic equilibrium at the core of the international system. Fluidity generated by the cumulative impact of differentiated economic performances of the status-quo oriented systemic primate and its existentially, if inadvertently, revisionist ‘near-peer-competitor’ generates transitional turbulence. As clarity and definition erode against an evolving but still-amorphous backdrop, dialectic dynamics precipitate the contours of a new, uncertain, order.

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Ali, S.M. (2015). From Tacit Allies to Strategic Competitors: Post-Cold War Transformation of Sino-US Dynamics. In: US-China Strategic Competition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46660-5_1

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