Epilogue: Does History Repeat Itself? The Crowe Memorandum
1 Crowe knew the issue from both sides. Born in
Leipzig to a British diplomat father and a German mother, he had
moved to England only at the age of seventeen. His wife was of
German origin, and even as a loyal servant of the Crown, Crowe
retained a cultural and familial connection to the European
continent. Michael L. Dockrill and Brian J. C. McKercher,
Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British
Foreign Policy, 1890–1951 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996), 27.
2 Eyre Crowe, “Memorandum on the Present State of
British Relations with France and Germany” (Foreign Office, January
1, 1907), in G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley, eds., British Documents on the Origins of the War, vol.
3: The Testing of the Entente (London:
H.M. Stationery Office, 1928), 406.
3 Ibid., 417.
4 Ibid., 416.
5 Ibid., 417.
6 Ibid., 407.
7 Ibid.
8 Phillip C. Saunders, “Will China’s Dream Turn into America’s Nightmare?”
China Brief 10, no. 7 (Washington,
D.C.: Jamestown Foundation, April 1, 2010): 10 (quoting Liu Mingfu
Global Times article).
9 Liu Mingfu, Zhongguo
meng: hou meiguo shidai de daguo siwei
yu zhanlüe dingwei [China Dream: Great
Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American
Era] (Beijing: Zhongguo Youyi Chuban Gongsi, 2010), 24;
Chris Buckley, “China PLA Officer Urges Challenging U.S.
Dominance,” Reuters, February 28, 2010, accessed at http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/01/us-china-usa-military-exclusive-idUSTRE6200P620100301.
10 Richard Daniel Ewing, “Hu Jintao: The Making of
a Chinese General Secretary,” China
Quarterly 173 (March 2003): 29–31.
11 Dai Bingguo, “Persisting with Taking the Path of
Peaceful Development” (Beijing: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
People’s Republic of China, December 6, 2010).
12 Adele Hayutin, “China’s Demographic Shifts: The
Shape of Things to Come” (Stanford: Stanford Center on Longevity,
October 24, 2008), 7.
13 Ethan Devine, “The Japan Syndrome,” Foreign Policy (September 30, 2010), accessed at
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/30/the_japan_syndrome.
14 Hayutin, “China’s Demographic Shifts,”
3.
15 See Joshua Cooper Ramo, “Hu’s Visit: Finding a
Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations,” Time (April 8, 2010). Ramo adopts the concept of
co-evolution from the field of biology as an interpretive framework
for U.S.-China relations.