How China and the U.S. might collide — or not

Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 15:22 in Mathematics & Economics

China’s dramatic rise as a world power rivaling the United States has placed the two nations on a potentially dangerous collision course, experts warned during a Harvard Kennedy School forum on Wednesday. Joining Belfer Center Director Graham Allison in conversation were Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Niall Ferguson, senior faculty fellow at the Belfer Center and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; and moderator Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The forum was based on a theme that Allison, who is also Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Kennedy School, explores in his forthcoming book, “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?” A Kennedy School forum with Graham Allison (second from left) Samantha Power, Niall Ferguson, and moderator Arne Westad (far left), assessed the threat of future conflict between the United States...

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