Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Far East, grade: 1,5, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Relations Theory, language: English, abstract: Organski concludes that there are no really viable possibilities to encounter a rising potent and powerful challenger and to stop him from growing. Against this background it would be rather reasonable for the US to accept other (regional) powers arising in the world, and therefore to resume Clintons policy of strategic partnership (Möller 2005, p. 17) in terms of cultivating friendship with China instead of isolating or arming against it.