The US flag flies in Tiananmen Square, before a visit by US President Barack Obama. Photo: AAP.
China's rise means the long-held geopolitical rules of East Asia are set to be radically shifted, writes Ron. Huisken. East Asia Forum provides a platform for the best in East Asian analysis, research and policy comment on the Asia Pacific region and world affairs.Nation states are a complicated and imperfect species. They are prone to say and do things that surprise other states (and sometimes their own citizens). One of the harder jobs for policy analysts is to decide what constitutes the inevitable 'noise' of international relations: the tactical adjustments, someone speaking out of turn, or a simple policy miscue. The rise of China has made this a progressively more acute challenge for most countries but especially those in the Asia Pacific. Hugh White recently authored an influential essay, Power Shift, which addressed the implications of this phenomenon for Australia, predominantly through the lens of the likely nature of US-China relations in the coming decades.
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