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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaafn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f the end of the Cold War provided a temporary reprievefrom great-power rivalry, the Sno-American relationship is currently heralding its return. Although strategic competition is not theonly dimension of the Sno-American relationship, it is beginning to define it. This turn of events should not surprise Washington. In itsshort history, the United States has played the role of both rising and established power in rivalries with the United Kingdom, Germany, Imperial Japan, and the Soviet Union. Indeed, theonlysurpriseisthat some believed that there would be a Chinese exception to the normal course of great-power behavior. China's rise did not have to be overly problematic. Indeed, Beijing's quest for wealth and power has improved the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, aswell as contributed to US prosperity. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has certainly acted more responsibly on the world stage since it abandoned its Maoist radicalism and entered a period of high economic growth known as the reform and opening. Why, then, is China's reemergence as a great power a problem for the United States? The challengefor Washington is not that China is richer and more powerful; rather, it is the kind of power that China is becoming under the continued one-party dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party. To fully understand the meaning of China's reemergence requires an understanding of the global strategic context of its increased power and prestige. The defining characteristicof that strategic environment is the overwhelming dominanceof USpower and influence-the US might be the most powerful country that the world has ever seen.I From China's point of view, this means that after 200 years of weakness and humiliation, the PRCfacesan America that is stronger and more influential than all of China's 1 AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

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