Commentary: US security view of China is not black and white

SPACE FOR COOPERATION AND MANOEUVRES

Despite such nuances about securitisation, the US and China still have many disagreements, such as over how peace, stability and (which) rules, are maintained. Naturally, this has led to growing mistrust.

We tend to think of trust as “trustworthiness”, or whether others share our fundamental moral values and therefore should be treated as we would wish to be treated by them, which has social and psychological dimensions.

There can be a more calculative trust, however, based upon expectations about behaviour which may be created through enforcement, supervision or other mechanisms . . .