Weekly Blog 2

Many people know about the relationship that China has with the USA. Some think that there is a bad relationship because the USA owes China a lot of money. However, what people do not know is that China and the USA try to work as one to help each other but also other countries around the world. Depending on your theory of international affairs, you may think the relationship between China and the USA is in the realism or liberalism category. For those that think it is realism, one would have to know that there would be no central power. Meaning that China and the USA will not have power over the other. This would make both countries work together to solve issues and help other countries with what they can. For liberalism one will know that both China and the USA will have power over one another but try to find a balance between each other in order to continue being “frenemies”, a term used to describe two parties that are friends and/or enemies. China and the USA are the two top strongest countries and both try to get smaller countries on their side because at the end of the day, the one with the most is the best. With realism there is balancing while in liberalism there is a possibility that one will have more than the other which may cause problems and some bloodletting may start. I say this because if there is a middle country used for trading so to say, that country may start a little rivalry between China and the USA and since it is in the middle there is a big possibility that it will be believed.