Abstract
Abstract Reassurance seeks to alleviate causes of competition and conflict and induce accommodation and cooperation by reducing fear, mistrust, misunderstanding, and miscalculation between adversaries. This chapter identifies six forms of reassurance and assesses their value for managing Sino-American conflict: reciprocity, irrevocable commitment, self-restraint, norms of competition, limited security regimes, and trade-offs. All of them are useful for conflict management in four major areas of tension in the relationship: Taiwan, North Korea, Asian maritime tensions and disputes, and the US alliance system in Asia. This analysis of China’s response to the US alliance system suggests an additional form of reassurance: authority sharing.
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