July 3, 2017

Editor's Note:

Whether China and the US can overcome "Thucydides Trap" and establish a new type of major power relationship is intensely debated by scholars. What insights can we find through history of China-US engagement? Global Times (GT) reporter Lu Jingxian and Liu Jianxi talked with Patrick Mendis (Mendis), Harvard Kennedy School's former Rajawali senior fellow and a current associate-in-research of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, on the issues. Mendis has lectured at over 25 Chinese universities and visited all the provinces of China. He also served as an American diplomat under Secretaries Madeline Albright and General Colin Powell, and as a military professor in NATO and the US Pacific Command.

GT: Your book Peaceful War analyzes China-US relations from the perspective of culture and reaches an optimistic conclusion. There are quite a few changes in international politics since 2013, for example, the continuous economic recession of the West, and rising populist sentiment in the US and the Europe. Do these factors change your view on the future Sino-US relations or do you stick to your conclusions?

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