Recent developments – including the high-profile visit by China’s premier Wen Jiabao to South Asia – showing the rising profile of China have intensified a long-running debate in Washington. How does the growing power and influence of China affect the dominance that the United States has so far enjoyed in Asia? In the second of our two-part series, Georgetown University’s China scholar Robert Sutter argues that, despite many worrying signs, US power in Asia remains strong. Chinese economic growth and diplomatic outreach, while impressive, remain hindered by both domestic and foreign policies. Politically, new tensions have led many other Asian countries to reinforce their relations with the United States, which Sutter argues never really declined in the first place. China cannot afford to alienate the US by pursuing aggressive policies aimed at regional domination. For that reason, Washington’s continued leadership in Asia – despite naysayers’ predictions – remains the optimal, if not the only, strategic aim for Beijing
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