Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power... Here's Why that's a Problem
Democracy Paradox
Introduction
The most dangerous states in the international system aren't necessarily revisionist powers that think that their trajectory points continually upward. It's those countries that have been growing rising for a long time and then fear that they are peaking and are about to decline. Many from Farid Zakaria to the Economist wonder whether China's power really has peaked. Our conversation weaves between some of his basic ideas on international relations, Cold War history, and current tensions with China today.
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