ABSTRACT
In China, there have also been concerns expressed as to whether the United States (US) can accept China as a great power, especially within the larger question of whether American power, at least in the Asia-Pacific region, is waning. Since the Sino-American rapprochement between Mao Zedong and US President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, and the US official recognition of the People’s Republic in 1979, the Sino-American relationship between China and the US has experienced occasional diplomatic highs and lows. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 in the wake of the Wuchang Uprising in October than year, and China’s subsequent descent into warlordism as well as growing Japanese occupation, the US continued to treat China as a strategic ally. There is said to be a general air of relaxation among the Chinese people that the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution seems spent.
