Realism And Liberalism

Realism- Against power of country rather than benefiting individuals within the country

The practicing form of realism, as a theory provides the façade that politicians should strive for power and authority. In essence, realism focuses on reducing the political and ethical principles and that power is what gains respect and supremacy. Where as the practicing form of liberalism concentrates on protecting and enhancing the freedom of an individual surrounding the issue of politics. As a principle, liberalism recognises that government may hold a major threat to the theory of liberalism although, is also seen to hold a wall of protection towards individuals. Therefore, in contrast, realists are pessimists. The progressive forces that liberal practitioners perceive that the world will incontrovertibly set higher levels of peace and prosperity. On the other hand, realists hold a perception that the laws of nature compel towards a form of struggle for power and survival. In reference to the conditions of the anarchy, the high level of material power, military strength can be used to a countries advantage by shaping the patterns of an on going relationship between two or more countries.

The relationship between China and the United States grasps onto an unprecedented issue that focuses on the implementations of security, trade and broader economic issues, towards human rights and the environment. Just as China’s economic and strategic clout has grown over the past three decades, ever since the Cold War, the United States relationship with China has expanded into an encompass of global, regional and bilateral issues. Due to a long-standing mutual mistrust, the relationship between USA and China endures to be obstinate. This mistrust i...

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...itical world as well. With reference once again to the end of the U.S.- Soviet Cold War, it is possible to imagine that a sudden breakthrough toward domestic political reform in China could open the way for radically improved relations with the United States. At the same time, however, it is conceivable that an unanticipated or mismanaged crisis (over Taiwan, for example, or North Korea, or in South Asia) could lead to the opposite result. If the United States and China were somehow to stagger from constrained competition to direct confrontation, their relationship would be transformed overnight. Trade and diplomacy would be disrupted; hostile images would harden; domestic The Future of U.S.-China Relations, political reform in China might be derailed; and the prospect of a genuine entente between the two Pacific powers could be put off for a generation or even more.