Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise
Whether and how China's rise renders it a threat has been an enduring study. Such literature may be categorised into four traditions: rationalist, structuralist, culturalist, and poststructuralist. Although these highlight the objective and subjective elements of China and its rise as a securit...
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| author | Chang, Jun Yan |
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| description | Whether and how China's rise renders it a threat has been an enduring study. Such literature may be categorised into four traditions: rationalist, structuralist, culturalist, and poststructuralist. Although these highlight the objective and subjective elements of China and its rise as a security concern, there is a puzzling scarcity of analyses that investigate the extent to which the USA itself has discursively constructed China as a security issue. To examine systematically what the USA has made of China, therefore, this article applies discourse analysis to US official security discourse. It finds that, whereas the US government has constructed China as a threat to its own national security as regards cybersecurity and economic competition, it has represented China's rise to the international community only as a collective risk across the military, political, and economic sectors. This practice has been largely consistent since 2005, in spite of China's so-called "assertive"turn. The article thereby clarifies the state of US-China competition from the US perspective. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1730922024-01-14T15:43:33Z Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise Chang, Jun Yan S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Social sciences::Political science United States China Whether and how China's rise renders it a threat has been an enduring study. Such literature may be categorised into four traditions: rationalist, structuralist, culturalist, and poststructuralist. Although these highlight the objective and subjective elements of China and its rise as a security concern, there is a puzzling scarcity of analyses that investigate the extent to which the USA itself has discursively constructed China as a security issue. To examine systematically what the USA has made of China, therefore, this article applies discourse analysis to US official security discourse. It finds that, whereas the US government has constructed China as a threat to its own national security as regards cybersecurity and economic competition, it has represented China's rise to the international community only as a collective risk across the military, political, and economic sectors. This practice has been largely consistent since 2005, in spite of China's so-called "assertive"turn. The article thereby clarifies the state of US-China competition from the US perspective. Submitted/Accepted version 2024-01-11T07:14:01Z 2024-01-11T07:14:01Z 2023 Journal Article Chang, J. Y. (2023). Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise. The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 16(3), 357-381. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poad010 1750-8916 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173092 10.1093/cjip/poad010 2-s2.0-85175198373 3 16 357 381 en The Chinese Journal of International Politics © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University. All rights reserved. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the copyright holder. The Version of Record is available online at http://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poad010. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Political science United States China Chang, Jun Yan Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise |
| title | Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise |
| title_full | Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise |
| title_fullStr | Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise |
| title_full_unstemmed | Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise |
| title_short | Of risk and threat: how the United States perceives China’s rise |
| title_sort | of risk and threat how the united states perceives china s rise |
| topic | Social sciences::Political science United States China |
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