{"id":1842,"date":"2025-06-01T07:29:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2025-06-01T07:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:29:27","slug":"china-vs-u-s-in-asia-john-mearsheimer-vs-vijay-prashad-on-south-china-sea-global-power-shift-27-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"China vs U.S. in Asia? | John Mearsheimer vs Vijay Prashad on South China Sea &amp; Global Power Shift, 27 May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u03a3\u03c4\u03b7 (\u03bd\u03ad\u03b1) \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03b3\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b1: \u00abNew Global Order\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this explosive geopolitical debate, international relations scholar John Mearsheimer and historian Vijay Prashad go head-to-head over the rise of China, the South China Sea tensions, and U.S. foreign policy in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mearsheimer argues that as China rises to superpower status, it will inevitably seek hegemony in Asia \u2014 pushing the United States to contain Beijing and secure its dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Vijay Prashad fires back, saying the U.S. has no legitimate role in the South China Sea or Asia\u2019s regional disputes. Asian countries \u2014 whether it&#8217;s India, Japan, or Taiwan \u2014 are capable of handling their own borders. The American military presence is fueling conflict, not peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prashad also flips the narrative: Shouldn\u2019t the U.S. solve its own territorial issues \u2014 from tensions with Canada, ambitions in Greenland, to control of the Panama Canal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics Covered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China\u2019s rise and regional hegemony<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. military presence in Asia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South China Sea dispute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India-China, Japan-China, and Taiwan-China tensions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critique of U.S. imperialism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u03a3\u03c4\u03b7 (\u03bd\u03ad\u03b1) \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03b3\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b1: \u00abNew Global Order\u00bb In this explosive geopolitical debate, international relations scholar John Mearsheimer and historian Vijay Prashad go head-to-head over the rise of China, the South China Sea tensions, and U.S. foreign policy in Asia. Mearsheimer argues that as China rises to superpower status, it will inevitably seek hegemony in Asia \u2014 pushing the United States to contain Beijing and secure its dominance. \u00a0Vijay Prashad fires back, saying the U.S. has no legitimate role in the South China Sea or Asia\u2019s regional disputes. Asian countries \u2014 whether&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-global-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}