How China has behaved in face of the US’s renewed hostility towards ally and adversary alike
Timeframe: 01/01/2025 – 10/05/2026
Key Insights
- Main question: How has China reacted, both “on paper” (diplomatically) and in practice (strategically), to recent US belligerence in Greenland, Venezuela and Iran?
- Argument: The recent international political upheaval many might have thought would benefit China’s own ambitions, but this has not been as clear-cut as it seemed.
- Conclusion: Instead of expanding its own hard power and ambition through force and coercion, China has shown signs of wishing to be the new leader of a peace-desiring.
Definition
Jingoism: Extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy. It results in an approach to IR marked by aggression rooted in irrational fanaticism for one’s nation.
Trump’s second term has wrought untold chaos like the world has not seen in decades, but China has not exploited that chaos in the way an emerging realist might.
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