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Invisible Anxiety: Would the Rise of C hina Really Be a Security Threat to the United States?
Author(s) -
Kwon Edward
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pacific focus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1976-5118
pISSN - 1225-4657
DOI - 10.1111/j.1976-5118.2012.01088.x
Subject(s) - democratization , modernization theory , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , political science , national security , financial crisis , economics , economic policy , development economics , political economy , economic growth , democracy , keynesian economics , law , politics , artificial intelligence , computer science
This paper investigates diverse public opinion on the rise of the P eople's R epublic of C hina through a survey conducted in the tri‐state region of I ndiana, K entucky, and O hio. In the midst of a global financial crisis, C hina's financial support to the US economy, as well as its recent modernization of the P eople's L iberation A rmy, echoed a serious public anxiety over a potential military and economic security threat to the United States. Will the rise of C hina create a military as well as an economic security threat to the United States? Is there anticipation that the continuing rapid economic growth in C hina will overtake the US economy within three decades? Will its successful economic growth lead C hina to democratization? Introducing scholarly debates on these research questions, the research in this paper examines important empirical research results on the issue.