Summary Andrew Scobell examines the use of Chinese military force abroad as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995-1996) and domestically, as…
Country or Region: China
Summary This volume addresses the role of the Chinese military in shaping its country’s security environment. The PLA itself is shaped and molded by both…
Summary Chinese leaders are pursuing a long-term grand strategy based on maintaining a peaceful international environment that allows China to build the economic and technological…
Abstract Explores the economic development in China as of January 2003. Implications of China’s economic growth for the U.S.; Economic indicators in China that hinder…
Summary Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading…
Summary In the 1970s and 1980s the United States and China developed cooperative relations to enhance security against the USSR. Conventional wisdom claims Washington and…
Abstract This article discusses the effects of various political developments on the independence movement in Taiwan. Although the independence movement enjoyed a high profile internationally,…
Abstract The author discusses his impressions of what he calls China’s nationalist diplomacy and its foreign policy errors. He states that China’s foreign policy is…
Summary As relations between the United States and China move into a period of intense activity and sensitivity, this timely book addresses the impact of…
Summary Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and US-PRC Relations draws extensively on the US-PRC negotiating record to assess…
Summary China’s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China’s oil imports,…
Abstract This chapter looks at China’s reactions to the “China threat theory”, a Chinese shorthand term for the full range of foreign fears that suggest…
Abstract The rise of China has aroused much concern and anxiety around the world. This has complicated China’s foreign policy objective of securing a peaceful…
Abstract This paper is designed to review China’s efforts to adapt to the post-Cold War world dominated by the United States and to analyze the…
Summary In a stunningly original work about the impact of cultural perceptions in international relations, Simei Qing offers a new perspective on relations between the…
