In a four-part video series, Professor Hugh White and Professor Anatol Lieven discuss the future for US - China relations in the context of White's thesis in his new book The China Choice. In this first chapter, White & Lieven discuss the tensions in the South China Sea by invoking IR theories about the beginnings of World War 1. White contends that just as Sarajevo was the unpredicted flashpoint for the First World War, the South China Sea today carries that potential for both China and America.
Image: USS Nimitz, USS Chosin, USS Sampson, and USS Pinkney in South China Sea, courtesy Flickr/OfficialUSNavyImagery