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Vo1. 38, No. 6, November/December 2020

Abstract

3 Future Development of Sino-US Relations and World Landscape
(Experts’ Commentaries)

[Editor’s Note] Sino-US relations are one of the most important bilateral relations
in the world. The sound and steady development of the relations not only conforms
to the fundamental interests of both countries and peoples, but also contributes to the
future world security order. However, US policies towards China have been
undergoing significant changes since President Trump assumed power, leading to
intensifying strategic competition between the two countries and making the
bilateral relationship more complex, uncertain and uncontrollable. In the face of
enormous difficulties, more efforts should be made to stabilize and further develop
Sino-US relations now standing at a juncture. This has sparked a wave of discussion
and debate among scholars both at home and abroad. How to view Sino-US relations
in a comprehensive, objective, rational and pragmatic manner has become a major
subject worth further exploration and clarification. Against this backdrop, on
September 19, 2020, the Editorial Department of Journal of International Security
Studies of UIR and the PLA Information Engineering University (Luoyang Campus)
successfully co-hosted the 13th “Expert Forum” on the subject of “Assessing
Sino-US relations” in Luoyang, Henan Province. Under the framework of “future
development of Sino-US relations and the world security order”, distinguished
scholars and researchers from all around China discussed such major issues as
difficulties and development trends of Sino-US relations, US domestic political
landscape and its policies towards China, as well as the construction of the future
world security order and China’s strategic responses. Some of the viewpoints of the
scholars and researchers are now offered to our readers.
[Keywords] Sino-US relations, world landscape, major countries in the world,
policies towards China
[Authors] SHI Yinhong, TANG Yongsheng, NI Feng, WU Baiyi, FU Mengzi, LI
Wenliang, ZHAO Kejin, SONG Guoyou, AN Gang, JIANG Yi, XU Wansheng.

39 From Discursive Crisis to Security Crisis: Mechanism and Resolution
SUN Jisheng
[Abstract] Language influences people’s mindsets and cognition, and serves as the
important media for communication. It is also an important dimension and approach
to view security. Discourse can construct threatening identities, narrate crisis stories,
produce discursive obstacles or even discursive crisis, securitizing certain issues,
and influencing threat and security perception, which in turn influences relevant
security policies, and even helps legitimate and start wars. Within the past over three
decades, China has been facing discursive pressure from the Western world on
different subjects. In the international public-opinion arena, China has been in a
disadvantageous position for decades. Sometimes, it even falls into discursive crisis
on certain topics, such as China’s threat, China’s assertiveness, China’s threat to the
freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, the “Thucydides trap” between China
and the United States, China’s threat to the world order, etc. Gradually becoming the
focus of the world, China needs to study and better deal with the discursive pressure

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