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China-US Reconciliation and the East Asian Security Order

China and the US need to make another grand bargain and transform the regional security order.

By Wei Zongyou

July 18, 2014

Originated in the aftermath of World War II and modified in the early 1970s, the current East Asia security order is primarily based on two pillars: The reconciliation between China and the United States in 1972, and the bilateral alliance treaty system established in the early 1950s. The former pillar ended the animosity and Cold War between the continental China and maritime U.S., while the latter served as a guard against the Soviet threat and a reassurance against any potential threat China may pose in the future. The reconciliation and the ensuing engagement with the outside world led to more than thirty years of unprecedented, continuous economic growth in China, dramatically changing the power architecture in East Asia. Meanwhile, the treaty system has guaranteed the stability and openness of the maritime order in East Asia and U.S. maritime hegemony in the Western Pacific.http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/china-us-reconciliation-and-the-east-asian-security-order/