Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy

by Hao, Yufan; Wei, C. X. George; Dittmer, Lowell

• ISBN13: 9780813192024
• ISBN10: 0813192021
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power-a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have contributed to its ascendancy as a major player in international affairs. Western scholars have attempted to explain Chinese foreign policy using historical or theoretical evidence, but until this volume, few studies from a Chinese perspective have been published in English.

Author Biography

Yufan Hao is assistant professor of political science at Colgate University. He is the coeditor of China’s Foreign Policy Making: Societal Forces and Chinese American Policy. C. X. George Wei is professor of law in the Lee Kong Chian School of Law at Singapore Management University. He is the author of several books, including The Law of Copyright in Singapore. Lowell Dittmer is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored numerous publications and is coeditor of China’s Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Overview: The Evolution of China's Diplomacy and Foreign Relations in the Era of Reform, 1976-2005	p. 15
China's Relations with the United States
Building a New Conceptual Framework for U.S.-China Relations	p. 37
China's New Leadership and Strategic Relations with the United States	p. 57
American Nuclear Primacy or Mutually Assured Destruction: The Future of the U.S.-China Strategic Balance of Power	p. 71
China's Relations with Other Major Powers
The Sino-Russian Strategic Relationship: Ghost of the "Strategic Triangle"?	p. 87
The European Union and China: Partnership with Competition	p. 115
China's Japan Policy: Beijing's View of the U.S.-Japan Alliance	p. 133
China's Regional Relations
The Korean Peninsula: A Chinese View on the North Korean Nuclear Issue	p. 155
China's Dilemma over the North Korean Nuclear Problem	p. 173
Changes in South Asia since 9/11 and China's Policy Options	p. 183
After the Anti-Secession Law: Cross-Strait and U.S.-China Relations	p. 197
Hong Kong and Macao: In between China and the West	p. 217
Chinese Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics
Between Rhetoric and Pragmatism: Nationalism as a Driving Force of Chinese Foreign Policy	p. 239
Engagement or Sanction? U.S. Economic Diplomacy toward China since the Cold War	p. 253
The Rupture of the Sino-Soviet Alliance: An Assessment of the National Intelligence Evaluation	p. 275
A Misty Cold War in the Himalayas: China's Historical Temperament in International Relations	p. 295
An Intercultural Communication Model of International Relations: The Case of China	p. 319
Conclusion, Lowell Dittmer	p. 335
English-Chinese Terms	p. 349
About the Contributors	p. 361
Index	p. 365
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