American and Chinese Power after the Financial Crisis

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See Fu Mengzhi, quoted in Geoff Dyer, “The Dragon Stirs, ” Financial Times, September 25, 2009. 2. Pew Research Center, “13 of 25 – China Will Be World's Top Superpower, ” The Databank, n. d. , http: //pewresearch. org/databank/dailynumber/? NumberID=832. 3. See National Intelligence Council, “Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, ” November 2008, http: //www. dni. gov/nic/PDF₂025/2025GlobalTrendsFinalReport. pdf. 4. Dmitry Medvedev quoted in Andrew Kramer, “Moscow Says U. S. Leadership Era is Ending, ” New York Times, October 2, 2008, http: //www. nytimes. com/2008/10/03/world/europe/03russia. html and Michael Ignatieff quoted in “The Ignatieff Revival, ” Economist, April 25, 2009, p. 42. 5. Horace Walpole quoted in Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly (New York: Random House, 1984), p. 221. 6. Graham Bowley, “It's ‘America the Swift’ in Bank Reform, ” New York Times, June 25, 2010, http: //www. nytimes. com/2010/06/27/weekinreview/27bowley. html. 7. See World Economic Forum, “The Global Competitiveness Report 2009–2010, ” pp. 116, 292, 320, http: //www. weforum. org/documents/GCR09/index. html. 8. “How to Improve China's Soft Power? ”People's Daily, March 11, 2010, http: //english. people. com. cn/90001/90785/6916487. html. 9. Ingrid d'Hooghe, “The Limits of China's Soft Power in Europe: Beijing's Public Diplomacy Puzzle, ” Clingendael Diplomacy Papers, no. 25, January 2010, http: //www. clingendael. nl/publications/2010/20100100cdspₚaperdhooghechina. pdf. 10. Joseph Nye and Wang Jisi, “The Rise of China's Soft Power and Its Implications for the United States, ” in Richard Rosecrance and Gu Guoliang, Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U. S. –China Relationship (New York: Public Affairs, 2009), pp 28–30. 11. See Joel Wuthnow, “The Concept of Soft Power in China's Strategic Discourse, ” Issues and Studies 44, 2 (June 2008): 2–24 and Mingjiang Li, ed. , Soft Power: China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009). 12. See David Shambaugh, “China Flexes Its Soft Power, ” International Herald Tribune, June 7, 2010, http: //www. brookings. edu/opinions/2010/0607chinaₛhambaugh. aspx. 13. See Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). 14. See Yee-Kuang Heng, “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Softest of Them All? Evaluating Japanese and Chinese Strategies in the Soft Power Competition Era, ” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 10 (2010): 298. 15. See Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, “Chinese Soft Power in the Indian Ocean, ” (paper, Toronto, September 3, 2009) (presented at the American Political Science Association). 16. David Barboza, “China Yearns to Form Its Own Media Empires, ” New York Times, October 4, 2009, http: //www. nytimes. com/2009/10/05/business/global/05yuan. html. 17. Geoff Dyer, “China's Push for Soft Power Runs Up Against Hard Absolutes, ” Financial Times, January 4, 2010. 18. See The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, “Soft Power in Asia: Results of a 2008 Multinational Survey of Public Opinion, ” 2009, http: //www. thechicagocouncil. org/UserFiles/File/POSTopline%20Reports/Asia%20Soft%20Power%202008/Chicago%20Council%20Soft%20Power%20Report-%20Final%206-11-08. pdf. 19. “World Warming to US Under Obama, BBC Poll Suggest, ” BBC News, April 19, 2010, http: //news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/world/8626041. stm. 20. This draws heavily on work done jointly with my friend Robert Keohane. See Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. , Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1977). 21. See Bill Gertz, “Chinese see U. S. debt as weapon in Taiwan dispute, ” Washington Times, February 10, 2010, http: //www. washingtontimes. com/news/2010/feb/10/chinese-see-us-debt-as-weapon/. 22. Jamil Anderlini, “China Still Keen to Buy US bonds, ” Financial Times, March 10, 2010. 23. See Daniel Drezner, “Bad Debts: Assessing China's Financial Influence in Great Power Politics, ” International Security 34 (Fall 2009): 7–45. 24. See John Paul Rathbone, “Brics Balance Shared Interests with Rivalries, ” Financial Times, April 14, 2010. 25. Kenneth Lieberthal quoted in Bruce Stokes, “China's New Red Line at Sea, ” National Journal, July 3, 2010, p. 43. 26. Zixiao Yang and David Zweig, “Does Anti-Americanism Correlate to Pro-China Sentiments? ” Chinese Journal of International Politics 2, no. 4 (2009), pp. 457–486. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph S. Nye Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming book The Future of Power (Public Affairs, February 2011), from which some of this is drawn. He is also a member of TWQ's editorial board