Tao WenzhaoResearcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Though Professor Ezra Vogel has passed away, he will always be remembered and venerated in Chinese academic circles. He not only made fruitful academic achievements in China and Japan studies, to which few foreign scholars can compare, but he also carried forward the tradition of “study for application” adopted by Professor John King Fairbank, former director and founder of the Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (now Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies). He promoted the development of U.S. relations with China and Japan, and won international acclaim and respect in so doing.
Su JingxiangFellow, China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations
The White House released its interim national security strategic guidance in early March, explicitly listing China as a target on America’s geostrategic agenda. It makes China-U.S. strategic competition a more open and clear reality.
Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has sought to establish a “unipolar world,” a so-called new world order dominated by itself. Its defense planning guidance, a programmatic document for post-Cold War U.S. global strategy that was issued by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1992 states that, “America’s political and military mission in the post-Cold War era will be to ensure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territories of the former Soviet Union.” It also says U.S. leaders “must maintain the mechanisms” to deter competitors from challenging U.S. hegemony, and identifies China and Russia as the major threats to t