Susan Shirk Comments on Current Relations between China and U.S.
China's foreign policy is playing catch-up with its new status
03/22/2012
Tania Branigan,
The Guardian
It is evident when China's aircraft carrier carves it way through the waters of the Yellow Sea. It is written between the lines of its growth statistics. It is built into the gleaming walls of the African Union headquarters half a world away. As the country's might increases, China's maxim of "keeping a low profile" looks increasingly irrelevant, even absurd, to many.
Calls for a fundamental overhaul of foreign policy are growing. "We will have to deal with pressures from abroad to remain modest and prudent, while domestically we are faced with complaints that China has been timid," said Wang Jisi, dean of Peking University's school of international studies.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
In 1993, she founded, and continues to lead, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
