{"id":128524,"date":"2025-10-17T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128524\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:01:10","slug":"can-us-and-beijing-avoid-dangerous-levels-of-tension-over-taiwan-and-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/128524\/","title":{"rendered":"Can US and Beijing avoid \u2018dangerous levels of tension\u2019 over Taiwan and South China Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States could help stabilise relations with Beijing<\/a> by scaling back its military activities in the South China Sea and restraining Taiwan, a think tank has suggested.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the Rand Corporation argued that stabilising the ongoing US-China rivalry was \u201cnot only possible but can serve the interests of both sides\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although they said that the two countries were \u201cvery far from even conceptualising how their rivalry could end or be transcended\u201d, they emphasised the need to look for ways to live with each other despite their deep-seated differences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States must take steps to head off the most dangerous Chinese ambitions and safeguard US interests,\u201d Michael Mazarr, Amanda Kerrigan and Benjamin Lenain wrote in the report published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven as it does so, however, the United States must, as it did during the Cold War, also seek to keep the rivalry from descending into extreme and dangerous levels of tension.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report argued that some of the comments by China\u2019s leaders were \u201cnot as extreme\u201d as they had been portrayed, adding that there was an \u201copening\u201d for coexistence but \u201cthe challenge \u2026 is whether it can be leveraged\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States could help stabilise relations with Beijing by scaling back its military activities in the South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[77522,76555,79,77521,356,179,18,19,17,8953,77520,74984,380,77518,77523,3997,77519],"class_list":{"0":"post-128524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-american-institute-in-taiwan","9":"tag-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cairo-declaration","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-philippines","18":"tag-rand-corporation","19":"tag-south-china-sea","20":"tag-taiwan","21":"tag-wang-yi","22":"tag-william-lai-ching-te","23":"tag-xi-jinping","24":"tag-xie-feng"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}