Please identify a research puzzle and then raise your research question on Chinese foreign policy. (write your own puzzle)

1. Raise a "why" question; 
2. Justify your puzzle with the reliable evidence and provide the sources of your evidence through complete footnotes;
3. You do NOT need to submit your literature review in this assignment (literature review is next assignment). However, you are encouraged to conduct a preliminary review on the existing literature related to your research question. You are required to submit your literature review in the next assignment.
two basic requirements for your explanation: independent variable and dependent variable, how you can tell the story to connect these two
 
 
Assignment Break-down：
 
·clear, true puzzle, challenge and solve the puzzle,
·puzzle: your existing knowledge cannot explain, you found something which challenge your existing/own believe system
·need to tell a story, demonstrate why your puzzle is puzzling, not just a research question
·try your best to write a new, interesting puzzle
·provide details to verify the puzzle is true
·no need to write how to solve the puzzle
 
answer to support that
without that solid, even not true
more details to support your puzzle is true, verify the puzzle
beyond our expectation
 
·Peer Reviewed Journals (Example):
oChinese journal of international policy
opacific review
ointernational security
ointernational affairs (based in England) (published many articles on China’s rise, etc.)
oChina Quarterly
 
·need footnotes rather than just reference
 
on class on Nov. 6, present it, and debate on each puzzle
 
注：本栏目重在收集一些海外留学文书的题目，以便加加留学编辑深入了解海外教育方式与发展形势，从而拓展个人陈述、推荐信等文书的写作思路。