In an exclusive interview with #MediaUnlocked in Beijing, Professor John Mearsheimer discusses the intensifying security competition between the US and China...
That second half of the interview amounts to John Mearsheimer saying ‘The US can no longer stop what I consider to be China’s clearest path towards regional hegemony’. It is not just throwaway futurism. It’s not something he says lightly. It’s his entire worldview and theory coming into place.
He continues to assert that it is in the USA’s interest to slowdown Chinese economic growth as much as possible, but even then he would bet that such measures would not slow China down and would likely hurt the US more in the process.
That second half of the interview amounts to John Mearsheimer saying ‘The US can no longer stop what I consider to be China’s clearest path towards regional hegemony’. It is not just throwaway futurism. It’s not something he says lightly. It’s his entire worldview and theory coming into place.
He continues to assert that it is in the USA’s interest to slowdown Chinese economic growth as much as possible, but even then he would bet that such measures would not slow China down and would likely hurt the US more in the process.
NGL, I want to believe.