SELECTION TOPICS which will be covered:

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1. Introduction to the course

2. How China Sees America and How America Sees China, Traumas of Tiananmen

Henry Kissinger, On China, Chapter 1

3. Visions of China Challenge and Bush Administration

Zheng Bijian, „China’s „Peaceful Rise“ to Great-Power Status,“ Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005
David Shambaugh, „A New China Requires a New U.S. Strategy,“ Current History, September 2010.

4. U.S. and China’s Rise - Obama and China

Hillary Clinton, „America’s Pacific Century,“ Foreign Policy (November 2011), available online.
Randall L. Schweller, Xiayu Pu, “After Unipolarity: China´s Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Summer 2011): pp. 41-72.

5. China´s Foreign Policy Making - Actors and Schools of Thoughts

David M. Lampton, How China is Ruled: Why It´s Getting Harder for Beijing to Govern, Foreign Affairs (Jan-Feb 2014), p. 74-84.

6. China´s New Security Concept, China´s Military

Robert D. Kaplan: The Geography of Chinese Power. How Far Can Beijing Reach on Land and at Sea. Foreign Affairs May-June 2010.
Executive Summary: Annual Report on the Military and Security Development of China’s Military 2019 (https://media.defense.gov/2019/May/02/2002127082/-1/-1/1/2019_CHINA_MILITARY_POWER_REPORT.pdf)

7. Going to War over Taiwan? Recent Developments in Cross-Strait Relations

John Mearsheimer, Say Goodbye to Taiwan, National Interest, http://nationalinterest.org/article/say-goodbye-taiwan-9931
David Pillig, US Cannot Sacrifice Taiwan to Court the Chinese, Financial Times

8. US v. China in Near Neighborhood: South China Sea - case study

Robert D. Kaplan, “China´s Carribean,” In Asia´s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific (Random House, 2014), pp.32-50.

9. China´s Domestic Challenges

Elizabeth Economy, China's Imperial President, Foreign Affairs, 2014 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2014-10-20/chinas-imperial-president

10. China-U.S. economic/trade relations/Trump’s trade war

Elisabeth Economy, “The G-2 Mirage“, Foreign Affairs 88, no. 3 (May/June 2009): 14-23.

11. China´s Rise: Challenge to America Globally?

John Williamson, „Is the Beijing Consensus Now Dominant?” Asia Policy, January 2012.
Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis, Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China, Council on Foreign Relations, March 2015.

12. China’s soft power and COVID, China’s tools of building of influence