Explaining the Reasons for the Deteriorating Sino-American Relations Before and After the Outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic

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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.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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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  -