Ye Publishes Article On Narratives & Realities of U.S.-China Relations
On March 23, 2021, Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article in Volume 44, Issue 1 of The Washington Quarterly – a Taylor and Francis publication on global security affairs including the U.S. role in the world, emerging great powers, nuclear proliferation challenges and global political changes – on COVID-19 and it’s impact on United States-China relations.
In the article, titled “The COVID-19 Effect: US-China Narratives and Realities,” Ye discusses the gap between narratives and realities of U.S.-China relations, China’s continued desire to globalize after the pandemic, as well as sources of globalism in China and implications for U.S.-China competition beyond the pandemic.
Ye argues that pragmatic globalists largely guided China’s policy choices in 2020; however, the U.S. has tended to characterize China as nationalistic and hawkish in its global strategy. By ignoring China’s real policy intentions, Ye says “the United States risks exaggerating the geopolitical threat from China on one hand and underestimating China’s ability to expand regional and global influence on the other.”
The full article can be read on the Washington Quarterly‘s website.
Min Ye is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her most recent book, titled The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 (Cambridge University Press 2020), explores the motivations and strategies behind China’s global economic expansion and considers the implications of the country’s status as a global power on both China and the world. Read more about Ye on her faculty profile.