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Power Problems • August 11, 2020 

# After Coronavirus III: Great Powers and COVID 

In the third of our series on the world after the coronavirus, we talk about great power politics and U.S.-China relations, with returning guest Joshua Shifrinson of Boston University.

1\. Joshua Shifrinson Bio: [https://​www​.bu​.edu/​p​a​r​d​e​e​s​c​h​o​o​l​/​p​r​o​f​i​l​e​/​j​o​s​h​u​a​-​s​h​i​f​r​i​nson/](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joshua-shifrinson/)

2\. Joshua Shifrinson, *International Security*, “[Partnership or Predation? How Rising States Contend With Declining Great Powers](https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isec_a_00384?journalCode=isec).”

3\. Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig, *Foreign Policy*, “[Is This The Beginning of a New Cold War with China](https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/31/is-this-the-beginning-of-a-new-cold-war-with-china/)?”

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##### [Joshua Shifrinson](/people/joshua-shifrinson)

Non-resident Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Associate Professor, University of Maryland

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