Globaltimes

With China-US relations at a critical juncture, US policy toward China is worrisome. The position of China experts is becoming increasingly awkward.

He has become one of the typical experts that spread the "China threat" theory at the international level. Another interesting phenomenon is that the number of crossover "China experts" in the US has increased, such as John Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer is one of the advocates of the "China threat" theory. A significant number of active China experts in US today are too speculative compared to their predecessors such as John King Fairbank, A. Doak Barnett, Ezra Vogel, and David M. Lampton. From the 1940s to the 1990s, most of famous US experts on China had a systematic understanding of Chinese history, culture, and political traditions, and their advocacy of engagement and cooperation with China remained consistent despite US political transitions. In this context, the discussion of China issues in the US has completely lost its bottom line. The US has the largest number of think tanks in the world. Think tanks and experts in the US system are constrained by the consensus of "strategic competition" and confrontation with China, making it difficult to put forth new ideas that challenge the current hard-line policy.