US Foreign Policy and China

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This book provides a critical analysis of the key security issues faced by Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump in their foreign policy towards China. It becomes clear how a new phase of rivalry and confrontation in the relationship between Beijing and Washington developed in the first two decades of the 21st century, the consequences of which can be seen today in China's behavior in the Ukraine war. -- Sehepunkte * Sabine Dabringhaus * This book is for any analyst trying to make sense of contemporary U.S. China policy and strategy. It provides a timely, clear-eyed, thorough, and insightful analysis of U.S.-China foreign policy spanning two decades by detailing the evolution of U.S. China policy and emerging Great Power competition across three presidential administrations. -- Kathleen A. Walsh, the U.S. Naval War College [these are personal views and not those of the U.S. Government, Navy or Naval War College] In 2020, relations between the United States and China entered a new stage of heightened competition and confrontation. With an emphasis on security issues, this comprehensive study expertly demonstrates how successive US presidential administrations wrestled with the challenges posed by China's rise. Anyone interested in the past and future of US-China relations should read this book. -- M. Taylor Fravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professors Aiden Warren and Adam Bartley have done an important service to readers endeavoring to understand the remarkable turn in U.S. policy toward China from engagement to acute rivalry in the 21st century. This well organized and clearly written volume plumbs available information to explain persuasively the evolution of the national security approaches to China of the Bush and Obama administrations, and thereby, highlight the important changes carried out by the Trump government. -- Robert Sutter, George Washington University