ABSTRACT
After over 20 years of Deng’s reforms, China is rising. There have been increasing concerns worldwide over the strategic implications of growing Chinese power. US scholars and policy makers debate and shift between two policies towards a rising China. One is an engagement policy focusing on the possible socialization of China through promoting bilateral trade and involving China in international institutions, thus reining in the rising power to play the rules of the game like others.1 The other is a containment policy constraining China’s rise before its military and economic power becomes an overwhelming challenge to the US. The latter assumes China is a revisionist state, and measures should be taken to stop it from seeking hegemony in the Asia Pacific region or worldwide.2
