Germany’s Will to Compromise
Nov 1, 2010 Cordelia Friesendorf & Michael Bolle
Cordelia Friesendorf is a research fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre.
A toxic mix of mutual distrust and rising nationalism – with Taiwan the immediate flash point – has brought Sino-American relations to their lowest point in decades. While neither China nor the United States appears to want a military conflict, we asked PS commentators whether the two powers might nonetheless stumble into one.