In January 2024, iGCU invited Professor Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Centerfor the Study of Contemporary China, to give an exclusive interview.
In the interview, Prof. Jacques deLisle made a deep and thorough analysis on a number of topics, including the rise of China, the US election and its policy towards China, the Belt and Road Initiative and the expansion of BRICS, the political role of social media, and the prospects of China-US cooperation. He pointed out that under the perspective of mainstream Western international relations theories, the theoretical interpretations of “China's rise” have either concluded that “China's growing strength threatens the West’s position of power” or feel frustrated seeing“economic interdependence and the failure of the international system to change China”. The different interpretations are intertwined, and together they constitute the overall negative narrative of the West about the rise of China. Currently, many of the factors shaping U.S.-China relations are structural and deep-rooted, and will not change because of regime change in the U.S. Even so, there is still hope for cooperation between China and the United States, and moving forward in the direction of cooperative problem-solving will always bring “good results”, which will require the two countries to put in efforts to sort out the details of cooperation.
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