Explaining the Reasons for the Deteriorating Sino-American Relations Before and After the Outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.165How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- China, United States, COVID-19, International Cooperation
- Abstract
In recent years, there have been lots of challenges and difficulties for Sino-American relations, which many scholars and the international society have paid attention to. During the COVID-19, the two countries did not cooperate in fighting against the pandemic as the international community expects, and the Sino-American relations even got worse. In order to figure out the reasons for the Sino-American deteriorating relations, people should not only analyze the specific conflicts but also investigate the deep reasons behind the superficial explanations the two governments provided for their policies relating to each other. This paper tries to answer the question above from international and domestic levels. From the international version, the anarchy of the international society, Thucydides’ Trap and the power transition theory can help understand why China and the United States have increased conflicts in the past years. From the domestic perspective, the differences in ideology and political systems, the public emotions and nationalism are the possible reasons that China and the United States have few cooperation during the pandemic.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jingyi Chen PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/21 TI - Explaining the Reasons for the Deteriorating Sino-American Relations Before and After the Outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 268 EP - 272 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.165 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.165 ID - Chen2021 ER -