U.S.-China Security Relations (from the Chinese perspective)

In American foreign policy, we inherently and inevitably view the world from the American worldview -- for better or for worse. At Great Decisions, we want to present both sides of each coin by supplementing our readings with relevant journalistic, academic, and governmental works from the country we are studying. However, most of the time we encounter the problem of language and our lack of ability to translate the documents into English. For U.S.-China security relations, we conveniently found a number of articles written by Chinese academics and governmental committees that are in English, and will reserve them until the week of our topic. To give you a preview, read this interesting American account of the Chinese perspective on U.S. diplomacy from UColorado political scientist Peter H. Gries:

http://www.ou.edu/uschina/gries/articles/texts/Gries2005ChinaEyesHegemon.pdf