China’s Relationships With the Great Powers

China’s Relationships With the Great Powers
A Chinese Navy frigate pulls into San Diego on Decc. 6, 2016. Bill Wechter/AFP via Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—“There hasn’t been a shot fired in anger in Asia since 1979.”

So said a leading think-tank scholar recently in Washington, opening a discussion among Asia-focused academics on China and its relationships with the other “great powers” of the United States, Russia, and Japan.