Tai Ming Cheung a Panelist at China Conference, "Constraints on China’s Foreign Policy"
Experts ponder China’s future
05/05/2011
Anthony Vasquez,
The Stanford Daily
Distinguished researchers of Chinese politics and international relations discussed the worldwide ramifications of a rising China yesterday as part of the Oksenberg conference series.
The conference, titled “Constraints on China’s Foreign Policy: Inside and Out,” consisted of a keynote address delivered by Thomas Christensen, professor of politics at Princeton. The conference was followed by two panel discussions.
In his address, Christensen noted that China, as a rising power, will encounter international challenges and suggested that China’s losses are not necessarily America’s gains.
“This is not a zero-sum game,” he said. “It’s not to the benefit of the United States when China has abrasive policies towards its neighbors and has tensions with our allies, and although many Americans might think that and say ‘That will help us bolster our alliances,’ we can bolster our alliances on our own.”
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Tai Ming Cheung is an associate research scientist at IGCC. He is in charge of the institute’s Minerva project "The Evolving Relationship Between Technology and National Security in China: Innovation, Defense Transformation, and China’s Place in the Global Technology Order." This five-year research and training program examining China’s efforts to become a world-class science and technology power is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
