{"id":4392,"date":"2018-11-19T19:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2018-11-19T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:31:09","slug":"balance-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/11\/19\/balance-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By: Martin Kemper &#8217;21, staff writer<\/p>\n<p>As part of LVC\u2019s colloquium series on power, Dr. David Lai spoke to students, faculty and staff in&nbsp; Zimmerman Recital Hall on China\u2019s growing power and the potential threat that poses to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of China\u2019s economic and militaristic sectors are variables that will challenge established power structures and define foreign affairs for decades to come. China\u2019s economy has seen significant growth within the past few decades which&nbsp;has&nbsp;led to an increase in military spending and a greater willingness to be more assertive in geopolitical affairs. Because of these changing variables, tensions with established power structures, like the United States and the European Union,&nbsp;could rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s often a temptation of a sitting power to preempt a rising power,\u201d Lai said, in reference to&nbsp;the natural tendencies of political actors and a possible path the U.S. could go down.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. pre-empting China\u2019s development could destabilize global markets and increase tensions between world powers. According to Lai, a fundamental problem is the inability to reconcile differences because of mutual misunderstanding and mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina and the U.S. are so different; they don\u2019t understand each other,\u201d Lai said. \u201cThe U.S. accuses China of human rights violations domestically while China accuses the U.S. of human rights violations internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How our differences are handled could mean a new age of global cooperation and prosperity or the horrible possibility of another world war.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By: Martin Kemper &#8217;21, staff writer As part of LVC\u2019s colloquium series on power, Dr. David Lai spoke to students, faculty and staff in&nbsp; Zimmerman Recital Hall on China\u2019s growing power and the potential threat <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/11\/19\/balance-of-power\/\" title=\"Balance of power\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}