ABSTRACT
The rise of China has been one of the most important events in post-Cold War international politics. Western analysts and policymakers alike have been debating the implications of and responses to the awakening and rapid rising of the giant in the East. Some are confident that China’s rise is a manageable challenge.1 Others are pessimistic and see China’s rise as a threat militarily, economically, and ideologically-what the Chinese call the “China threat theory” (Zhongguo weixie lun), a convenient label for all China-threat arguments.
