Mearsheimer: The United States can no longer stop China’s rise

In an exclusive interview with China Daily, John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, said that the United States has tried hard to contain China, but it has been unable to stop China’s rise. He believes that the so-called American narrative of “democracy” versus “authoritarianism” is just a means for the political elite to package the strategy of “containing China”. The fierce security competition between China and the United States may continue for the next few decades, and the Taiwan issue, the South China Sea dispute, the East China Sea dispute and the Korean Peninsula issue are “powder kegs” that may trigger a hot war between China and the United States.