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The paper argues that there will not be a military conflict between the U.S. and China by the middle of this century because: since 1947, the great powers have been constrained from warfare by the development of nuclear weapons, which create a permanent balance of power between all those who possess them; the interdependence between the U.S. and China renders conflict impossible in a global neoliberal regime; the offense-defense imbalance renders the cost of even limited engagement impossibly high; and the possibility of conflict arising out of misperception is slight in both the U.S. and China.

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"There will not be a military conflict between the U.S. and China by the middle of this century because: since 1947, the great powers have been constrained from warfare by the development of nuclear weapons, which create a permanent balance of power between all those who possess them; the interdependence between the U.S. and China renders conflict impossible in a global neoliberal regime; the offense-defense imbalance renders the cost of even limited engagement impossibly high; and the possibility of conflict arising out of misperception is slight in both the U.S. and China. To the extent that these reasons are theorized within neorealism,..."

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