1. Return to the Middle Kingdom? China and Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction: The Rise of China and Asia’s New Dynamics 1
7. Part One. China and the Changing Asian Landscape
8. 1. Return to the Middle Kingdom? China and Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century 23
9. 2. China’s Regional Strategy 48
10. Part Two. The Economic Dimension
11. 3. China’s Regional Trade and Investment Profile 71
12. 4. China’s Regional Economies and the Asian Region: Building Interdependent Linkages 96
13. Part Three. Politics and Diplomacy
14. 5. China-Japan Relations: Downward Spiral or a New Equilibrium? 135
15. 6. China’s Ascendancy and the Korean Peninsula: From Interest Reevaluation to Strategic Realignment? 151
16. 7. Taiwan Faces China: Attraction and Repulsion 170
17. 8. China and Southeast Asia: The Context of a New Beginning 187
18. 9. China’s Influence in Central and South Asia: Is It Increasing? 205
19. 10. China and Russia: Normalizing Their Strategic Partnership 228
20. Part Four. Security
21. 11. China’s Evolving Regional Security Strategy 247
22. 12. China’s Regional Military Posture 266
23. Part Five. Implications for the United States
24. 13. China’s Regional Strategy and Why It May Not Be Good for America 289
25. 14. China’s Rise in Asia Need Not Be at America’s Expense 306
26. Part Six. Implications for the Asian Region
27. 15. The Transformation of the Asian Security Order: Assessing China’s Impact 329
28. 16. The Evolving Asian Order: The Accommodation of Rising Chinese Power 347
29. Index 363