Summary What are the major challenges, fault lines, and potential adversities (these terms are used synonymously), that China’s economic development will encounter over the next…
Country or Region: China
Abstract This article, published in 2004 in China’s most prestigious military journal, China Military Science, merits special attention as a cogent explanation for the recent…
Abstract The assessment of China’s present power status in the world, to a certain extent, reflects people’s concern about the rise of China in the…
Summary In the quarter century after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable…
Excerpt China’s rapid development has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. The implications of various aspects of China’s rise, from its expanding influence and military…
Abstract United States President Barack Obama’s announcement of significant shifts in US polices towards the Middle East and East Asia in 2009 has affected the…
Abstract Over the last few years the institutionalization of the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) process has started to take shape. Government leaders, ministers, and senior…
Abstract China is strengthening diplomatic ties and building naval bases along the sea lanes from the Middle East. This “String of Pearls” strategy is designed…
Abstract THE APRIL 1975 victory of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA)-sandwiched between comparable denouements in Cambodia and Laos-has been greeted by the People’s Republic of…
Abstract Only two and one-half years ago the security situation in Southeast Asia seemed almost tranquil. Major actors appeared to be devoting their energies to…
Abstract That China is slated to become a twenty-first century superpoweris increasingly accepted by specialists, policy makers, and pundits alike. These observers postulate, on this…
Abstract Southeast Asian states as a group employ two general strategies to protect themselves against domination by a strong China: engagement and hedging. The hedging…
Summary China’s rising maritime power is encountering American maritime power along the sea lines of communication (SLOCs) that connect China to vital energy resources in…
Abstract It is almost a conventional wisdom now that the centre of gravity of global politics has shifted from Europe to the Asia–Pacific in recent…
Abstract China’s efforts to build ‘nodes’ of influence in the Indian Ocean Region have been increasingly discernible in recent years. This endeavour, many argue, is…
