A New Cold War?

Smith, Nicholas Ross

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“…For some of the CEE countries, such shift was associated with taking sides in the escalating conflict between the United States and China. Much of this has revolved around the ‘technological Cold War’ between Washington and Beijing (Smith, 2020). In particular, the United States has used the Three Seas Initiative – framing the region between the Adriatic, the Black and the Baltic Seas, comprising 12 EU states, chiefly from the CEE region and also members of China’s ‘17+1’ grouping – to garner support for the so-called ‘Clean Network’ initiative (Whyte, 2020), which Chinese diplomats have panned as discriminatory and in fact a ‘dirty network’ (Foreign Ministry Regular Press Conference, 2020).…”

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The end of China’s romance with Central and Eastern Europe

Kavalski

2021

Global Media and China

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The 2016 Mandopop hit ‘Prague square’ ushered in a new romance for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in China. Such infatuation has resonated not only in popular culture, but was mirrored in China’s newfound boldness on the international stage. Drawing on CEE media accounts, the article demonstrates that China’s romance with the CEE countries was never reciprocated. In fact, the CEE region might present a significant outlier in that media accounts of China have been consistently negative in the decade preceding the Covid-19 pandemic. In other words, the pandemic merely accelerated trends that were already set in motion prior to 2020. In this respect, CEE media accounts of both China and the Covid-19 pandemic reveal an interesting ‘localization of the other’. As such, China has been used to validate specific domestic positions of different political formations. Perceptions of China (what it is assumed to stands for) have been deployed domestically in the CEE region to justify particular visions of the state and its international identity.

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The end of China’s romance with Central and Eastern Europe

Kavalski

2021

Global Media and China

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“…At present, separate Chinese, EUROfusion (ITER), U.K., and U.S. public sector DEMO-class machines are being or are due to be developed (Department of Energy, 2020; EUROfusion, 2020; National Academies, 2021), together with mainly Western private-sector machines, risking factionalism in the global fusion community. This is especially true of leading ITER community members, notably China, Russia, and the U.S., who are already engaged in a New Cold War (e.g., Woodward, 2017; Smith, 2020). In part, perhaps this explains why neither Putin nor Brouillette mentioned peace.…”

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The place of peace in the ITER machine assembly launch: Thematic analysis of the political speeches in the world’s largest science diplomacy experiment.

Carayannis¹,

Draper²

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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This study begins by reviewing the historical importance of peace in the ITER fusion experiment, the world's largest science diplomacy experiment, including by referencing other nuclear peacebuilding attempts, like the Baruch Plan and Atoms for Peace. It thematically analyses the speeches delivered by ITER consortium member state leaders at the July 28, 2020 ITER Machine Assembly Phase launch, which covered topics including fusion being a clean and safe form of energy and fusion's potential applications for climate management. The study emphasizes that Putin and the US representative did not reference peace, despite ITER being conceived by the Soviet Union and USA as a peacebuilding experiment, while China and others did. To address backsliding, the study recommends ITER engaging with the Call for a Global Commission for Urgent Action on Fusion Energy, issued in 2020, which incorporates a peacebuilding strand. Public Significance StatementThis study recalls the historical importance of peace in the ITER fusion experiment, also the world's largest science diplomacy experiment. Analysing speeches by global leaders delivered at the July 2020 ITER Machine Assembly Phase launch, it emphasizes that Putin and the US representative did not reference peace, despite ITER being conceived by the Soviet Union and USA as a peacebuilding experiment. To remedy this, the authors recommend ITER engaging with the Call for a Global Commission for Urgent Action on Fusion Energy, which incorporates a peacebuilding strand.

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The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China

Lucenti

2024

Int Polit

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When Donald Trump was elected, the idea of the ‘China Threat’ gained popularity. Nonetheless, this was not a novelty. From the early nineties, when the country consolidated its economic growth, concern had begun to spread that China would convert its economic resources into a military force to turn against the US. This article explores whether the concept of the China Threat may have been influenced by stereotypical representations rooted in US academic thinking and shared at the government level. The analysis proceeds by adopting a three-stage approach. First, it draws a theoretical framework that intertwines a constructivist perspective from IR theory with social psychology, referring to Social Representations Theory and theories of stereotypes. Second, while focusing on the expressions ‘Thucydides’ Trap’ and ‘New Cold War’, it describes how the China Threat has been elaborated in the US scholarly agenda. Finally, it discusses how the China Threat has found an outlet especially in the Trump administration’s narrative.

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A New Cold War?

Cited by 7 publications

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The end of China’s romance with Central and Eastern Europe

The end of China’s romance with Central and Eastern Europe

The place of peace in the ITER machine assembly launch: Thematic analysis of the political speeches in the world’s largest science diplomacy experiment.

The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China

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