A scholar of international relations in Beijing warned that if the relationship between China and the United States is not immediately stabilized, “there will be war.”
“It cannot be taken for granted and fantasized that conflict will never erupt between [the U.S. and China],” said Shi Yinhong a professor at the Renmin University of China’s Institute of International Relations. He made these remarks during a speech at Renmin’s National Institute of Development and Strategy, where he argued that the formerly stable relationship between the U.S. and China can never be recovered.
“The stability of the past three years between the two countries is gone, and without new stability, there will be war,” insisted Shi. “So, there must be new strategic stability which will be achieved by being practical, sufficiently focused and through specific and important proposals, dialogues or negotiations.”
Shi believes that the need for the U.S. and China to stabilize relations is more important now than ever, because their “strategic frontiers” are inching closer and closer as time passes. It’s only a matter of time before a confrontation breaks out, which Shi said “should not be taken for granted” as some kind of fantasy that will never happen.
Shi is not the only person who believes the tense relationship between the U.S. and China could one day lead to war if it isn’t cooled off immediately. Admiral Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, recently warned that the military must prepare for the “very real possibility” of nuclear war breaking out with either China or Russia.
“There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons,” he wrote in Proceedings, the journal of the Naval Institute. Richard is demanding that country needs to “prepare for the conflict we prefer, instead of one we are likely to face.”
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