Weighing US Policy on China: Creating Your Own Option

US policy on China 

Options 1 and 2 more popular than three. Option 4 very unpopular.  Make sure you address resistance to Option 4 in your own option.  I know you think I know why this was unpopular, but you do need to explain the rationale as to why it is not workable. Is it a knee-jerk response? 

Homework to be completed for Wednesday is to create your own option. The above results only inform your argument and counter-argument, NOT your option viewpoint. You are free to create the viewpoint you believe the best approach. 

Below I summarize everyone’s viewpoint from today’s deliberative discussion. Consider these questions while formulating your option: 

1. To what extent do you want to help at-risk people in China from a human rights Len? 
2. To what extent do you want to help other countries? Is help really to protect human rights or US strategic interests? 
3. What does a future China look like ideologically speaking?How can the U.S. capitalize on a constant changing China? Where is it unstable internally? How would an unstable China affect internal or external affairs? 
4. How can the US create relationships with other countries so as to rely less on the US-China relationship?
5. How do you protect against unfair labor or intellectual property practices that make US less competitive or are wrong?  How do you benefit the lives of people in the US? 
6. How to illuminate the COSTS of China’s own internal policies?
7. How will women transform the future China as fortunes rise?
8. Has it ever worked to force US values on other countries? 
9. Instead of democratic values, what if US policies instead emphasized civil liberties or human rights instead? Is the type of the government important or is it the behaviors? 
10. Given that containment didn’t work in the Cold War, how can we use history to construct a future that will work? (E.g., open door)
11. How to promote the individual interests of individuals and groups (e.g., business community) in the US on China?
12. How to promote the security interests of the US government’s duty to protect its citizenry? Using a structural realist lens, how can the U.S. protect against a potentially aggressive China? 
13. How to protect other countries and our own citizens from the growing authoritarianism China seen to spread? 
14. How to ensure the prosperity of both the US and China? 
15. Could the US create a Marshall Plan for the 21st century? 
16. Could the US rely on outside partnerships and allies to construct a better global trade policy? 
17. If human rights are an important consideration, are we failing an obligation to Chinese citizens by trading (or not trading) with China? 
18. Using a social constructivist lens, how can good shared experience between China and US change its history?