Dr. Peter Hays Gries from the University of Colorado at Boulder just published this OP-ED piece on the Denver Post: “American talk of “China’s rise” may appeal to Chinese pride, but it also generates profound concerns in China about whether the United States will follow the historic pattern of dominant but declining powers – initiating preventive wars against rising challengers.
While these may appear from an American perspective to be the best of times in U.S.-China relations, therefore, there is little doubt that Chinese today continue to warily eye the United States. ”
