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National interests and powers - Coggle Diagram
National interests and powers
Many people believe national security = national interest
Issue may not be important enough for this elevation
May not be best way to attain goal
Characteristics
Appropriate action to alleviate the problem
Degree of importance
VIs and LTVs
VI
Conditions that are so important that the state will not willingly compromise
LTV
Matters of lesser importance
Boundary between whether states will consider violence
Objections to elevation national interests
Individual interests
Human rights
Conditions that maximize the prosperity of individuals
When national interests between states conflict, violence can hurt individuals
Represent arguments for popular sovereignty
International interests
Conditions that transcend national boundaries
Security dilemma
Where one state is insecure in its security relationship with another and takes actions to increase its security
US and China
Both states possess nuclear weapons
Mutual interest in survival
Emergence of China as primary US competitor
Similarities
US has fourth largest land mass China has fifth
China has largest population US has third
Deng Program
Agriculture
Science and technology
Economic strength
Military
China growth decline
Economy has slowed
Chinese population aging and shrinking
Economics
Chinese Communist Party
Encouraging consumerism
Expanding global influence
Developing and exporting advanced technologies
Geopolitics
Pacific Rim
Korean penninsula
China has supported North Korea to ensure no hostile country on its border
Talk of unifying Korea scares China
Taiwan
After Chinese civil war taiwan formed separate government
US has supported Taiwan
South China sea
China claims South China Sea
US denies chinas claim to sea