{"636558":{"#nid":"636558","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Chinese Veterans of Korean War Urge Peace as Tensions with US Mount","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;Chinese Veterans of Korean War Urge Peace as Tensions with US Mount\u0026quot; published June 25 in India\u0026#39;s Deccan Herald.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFei-Ling Wang, professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology, says China\u0026#39;s rapid economic growth has \u0026quot;narrowed significantly\u0026quot; the two rivals\u0026#39; military gap.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the Western Pacific region, particularly near the Chinese Mainland, the PLA (People\u0026rsquo;s Liberation Army) has evidently acquired a substantially even \u0026ndash; if not superior \u0026ndash; capability versus the United States,\u0026rdquo; Wang says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang argues that since 1949 China\u0026rsquo;s ruling Communist Party has viewed \u0026ldquo;American power as a mortal political threat.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is a \u0026ldquo;deep incompatibility and enmity\u0026rdquo; between Washington and Beijing that \u0026ldquo;has become harder to ignore or conceal\u0026rdquo; since Xi came to power in 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ongoing trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic ony revealed and highlighted that rivalry,\u0026rdquo; ways Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Cold War, during most of which China was a major opponent of the United States, seems (to have) never really ended between Beijing and Washington, and now is just being rekindled.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead more at: https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/international\/world-news-politics\/chinese-veterans-of-korean-war-urge-peace-as-tensions-with-us-mount-853457.html\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-06-26 13:19:47","changed_gmt":"2020-07-23 16:05:45","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Power and Energy Integrated Circuits Lab","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/international\/world-news-politics\/chinese-veterans-of-korean-war-urge-peace-as-tensions-with-us-mount-853457.html","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64745":{"id":"64745","type":"image","title":"Professor Fei-Ling Wang","body":null,"created":"1449176765","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:05","changed":"1475894569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:49","alt":"Professor Fei-Ling Wang","file":{"fid":"192084","name":"tsu87427.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsu87427_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsu87427_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33579,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tsu87427_0.jpg?itok=q94IdQR6"}}},"media_ids":["64745"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"12187","name":"Fei-Ling Wang"},{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"180822","name":"Trade War"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}