Paper Subject is Issue in International Politics. It’s originally 2500 word essa

Paper Subject is Issue in International Politics. It’s originally 2500 word essay and the main topic is to discuss “What are the consequences of China’s rise for international politics?”. Using Harvard style (and in text-citation also need a page number).
This question is really asking whether China’s rise will result in a security dilemma/security conflict between the U.S. and China. Answers to this question should really be about testing at least two theoretical expectations about power transitions and making sense of them through the specific U.S.-China case. The obvious answer would be to think about the Mearsheimer reading as a form of structural (offensive) realism. The usual foil here would be someone like G. John Ikenberry (a liberal or institutionalist perspective). This does not mean that this is the only acceptable approach here. Stronger answers here will be both theoretically and empirically informed. The weaker answers will probably fail to balance both these aspects.
Understanding: 1.) understanding the question (what it is asking you to do), 2.) understanding the key debate the question is probably directing you towards, and 3.) understanding the concepts and literature involved in this.
Analysis: 1.) your ability to subject existing work to critical review, 2.) your ability to analyse the empirical through different theoretical frameworks or positions, 3.) and the ability to reflect on the wider implications of your analysis.
Structure: introduction, development, conclusion.
1) introduction (what is the topic, why is it important, what is the paper’s argument and how will it develop); 2) some sort of ground-clearing exercise (e.g., “There are a number of answers already offered regarding the different outcomes between Copenhagen, 2009 and Paris, 2015. These include…”; 3) the identification of some sort of problem that justifies writing the paper (e.g., “To date, this literature has overlooked…” / or “At present, we need a further analysis of X to understand the different outcomes”) (note: 2 and 3 tend to come in the same paragraph/section); 4) analysis (I tend to work with the rule of three but I am not dogmatic in this and do not expect you to necessarily follow my obsessive neurosis); 5) importance of analysis for set up in points 2/3 and wider importance of your analysis; 6) conclusion
Ideas should be presented in a logical manner, obviously. Have the stronger/most important parts of argument/analysis to come near the end-build upwards as opposed to downwards. One potential problem is a bit of a lopsided analysis- that is, end up talking a lot about one point in your analysis and neglect another point-try to maintain balance in both tone and content.