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Strategic Rivalry

Apr 02-2019   



That the US and some other developed countries have started to highlight strategic rivalry with China is not a haphazard happening, but rather an inevitable result of the evolution of post-crisis world order and China’s development, said NSD Prof. Lu Feng during a recent seminar dedicated to analyzing the “Two Sessions’, namely NPC and NPPCC which took place in Beijing in the first half of March. For a starter, the developed countries feel the pressure of China’s rapid economic growth and the rising of its high value-added and high-tech firms. Secondly, China’s active participation in global governance systems has created positive impact but has been misunderstood and appropriated by some countries for competitive motives. Lastly, due to various constraints, China’s reform and opening up has slowed down for a certain period and irrational government intervention and over-control still exist in some areas. This might have resulted in frustration and disappointment among some countries, and hence their impulse to adjust policies, he argued. On one hand, the dramatic change in the external environment reflected the acknowledgement by the international community of China’s great accomplishment over 40 years of reform and opening up and set the stage for China’s grand entrance to compete in the shaping of global governance. On the other hand, it will pose challenges to China’s goals of achieving breakthroughs in reform and realizing the transformation into a modernized system, said Prof. Lu.

Strategic Rivalry

Apr 02-2019   



That the US and some other developed countries have started to highlight strategic rivalry with China is not a haphazard happening, but rather an inevitable result of the evolution of post-crisis world order and China’s development, said NSD Prof. Lu Feng during a recent seminar dedicated to analyzing the “Two Sessions’, namely NPC and NPPCC which took place in Beijing in the first half of March. For a starter, the developed countries feel the pressure of China’s rapid economic growth and the rising of its high value-added and high-tech firms. Secondly, China’s active participation in global governance systems has created positive impact but has been misunderstood and appropriated by some countries for competitive motives. Lastly, due to various constraints, China’s reform and opening up has slowed down for a certain period and irrational government intervention and over-control still exist in some areas. This might have resulted in frustration and disappointment among some countries, and hence their impulse to adjust policies, he argued. On one hand, the dramatic change in the external environment reflected the acknowledgement by the international community of China’s great accomplishment over 40 years of reform and opening up and set the stage for China’s grand entrance to compete in the shaping of global governance. On the other hand, it will pose challenges to China’s goals of achieving breakthroughs in reform and realizing the transformation into a modernized system, said Prof. Lu.