The Promising and Unpromising Conditions regarding Counterbalancing the Aspiring Status-Seeker: Historical Practices in China’s Warring States Period and its Meaning to Current USA-PRC Hegemonic Competition

• In Event: Strategy and Credibility

Brief Overview

Hegemonic status seeker could successfully broken down opponent’s counterbalancing with strategic combination of internal approach of capabilities built-up, alliance sabotage, threat disguise, and preference manipulation.

Author

• Hsin-Chih Chen, National Cheng Kung University