International Relations Researches

International Relations Researches

China's Rise: US Challenges Facing China's Increasing Power in International Relations

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohammad Hasan Khani 1
Mohammad Masrour 2
1 Associate Professor of International Relations, Imam Sadegh University
2 Master of Political Science, Imam Sadegh University
Abstract
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the US bipolar system, the United States claimed the status of undisputed power and the most powerful state in the international system, an actor capable of directing international rules and procedures alone. However, by challenging the US, other major powers continued their efforts to change this situation with long-term and strategic planning. These actors have always threatened America's top position as a potential competitor. China is one of the great powers whose potential to transform America into a superpower and occupy its current position has raised concerns among US strategists and officials. As a result, the United States shifted the focus of its national security strategy from the Middle East to East Asia in the second decade of the twenty-first century to counter this potential threat.
This paper examines the challenges that China's emergence vis-à-vis the United States, and examines these five areas of economic, political, military, cultural, and cyber, given the competition between China and the United States. The paper concludes with the assumption that the rise of China's national power in these five areas is clearly a major challenge and threat to the United States' superior position among world powers.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the US bipolar system, the United States claimed the status of undisputed power and the most powerful state in the international system, an actor capable of directing international rules and procedures alone. However, by challenging the US, other major powers continued their efforts to change this situation with long-term and strategic planning. These actors have always threatened America's top position as a potential competitor. China is one of the great powers whose potential to transform America into a superpower and occupy its current position has raised concerns among US strategists and officials. As a result, the United States shifted the focus of its national security strategy from the Middle East to East Asia in the second decade of the twenty-first century to counter this potential threat.
This paper examines the challenges that China's emergence vis-à-vis the United States, and examines these five areas of economic, political, military, cultural, and cyber, given the competition between China and the United States. The paper concludes with the assumption that the rise of China's national power in these five areas is clearly a major challenge and threat to the United States' superior position among world powers.
Keywords
America
China
power
international relations
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