POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Gunboat Diplomacy, Trade War, Superpower
26 Apr 2019
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It is a dog eat dog world after all: hobbes" anarchic state system (leviathan, even british did not have uniform power around the entire world. Us-china rivalry - realist view: china"s military and economic expansion puts it on a collision course with the us, mistrust, historical rivalry make confrontation likely at some point. Idea that diplomacy can work and that negotiations can happen. China encounters colonizing west: opium wars of 1839-42, 1856-60, europe bought chinese goods but china didn"t buy european goods; uk wanted to open. China as a market for opium produced in india; china refused; gunboat diplomacy: send the british navy to bombard chinese ports as punishment for refusal to open its markets. April 9, 2018: result: china lost, forced to give western powers favorable trade status. Boxer rebellion 1899-1901: chinese rebels (boxers) attempted to expel foreigners from beijing, empress dowager cixi supported rebels, declared war in june 1900; 55-day siege of.
