{"id":50646,"date":"2021-09-28T15:58:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=50646"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:29:52","slug":"najam-comments-on-escalating-u-s-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2021\/09\/28\/najam-comments-on-escalating-u-s-china-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam Comments on Escalating U.S.-China Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-43108 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/04\/usa-vs-china-1024x612-1-e1611934023981-992x558.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a><span>, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed on the PTV News program <em>Politics Today <\/em>discussing the United States military alliance with Australia and its implications on regional stability in Asia and the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his comments, Najam noted that the escalation and tensions between China and the U.S. have in some ways come faster than expected. As a result, the entire region has been left on edge about what the fallout might be from any escalation between the two, especially for countries in Asia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch \u201cPolitics today \u201d<br \/>\nTonight at 09:05 pm<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdilNajam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AdilNajam<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorekFarhadi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TorekFarhadi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FarrukhKPitafi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FarrukhKPitafi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArslanMSaeed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ArslanMSaeed<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SlaraWaheed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SlaraWaheed<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/__Hassam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@__Hassam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Be0V5Xv7RL\">pic.twitter.com\/Be0V5Xv7RL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PTV World (@WorldPTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldPTV\/status\/1442872846267478016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>is a global public policy expert who also served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Read more about Dean Najam on his<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">faculty profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The escalating tensions between China and the U.S. have in some ways come faster than expected and have left the entire region on edge about what the fallout might be for countries in Asia in particular. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":43108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[11784,1720,9042,1688,1165,9527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50652,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions\/50652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}