The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality

by Storey,Ian; Storey,Ian

• ISBN13: 9780700717385
• ISBN10: 0700717382
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-23
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Examines perceptions of the 'China Threat', and government policies in response to the perceived threat in a wide range of countries and areas, including the US, Russia, Europe, Japan, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	xiii
Tables	xvi
Introduction	1	(20)
Herbert Yee
Ian Storey
Chinese Perspectives of the China Threat: Myth or Reality?	21	(22)
Herbert Yee
Zhu Feng
American Perceptions of Chinese Military Power	43	(22)
Jonathan D. Pollack
Reflecting Mirrors across the Taiwan Straits: American Perspectives on a China Threat	65	(21)
Edward Friedman
Russian Perceptions of the China Threat	86	(29)
Alexander Lukin
The China Threat - A European Perspective	115	(14)
Joachim Glaubitz
Changing British Perceptions of the China Threat, 1945-2000	129	(21)
Brian Hook
The Japanese Assessment of the `China Threat'	150	(16)
Wenran Jiang
South Korea and a Rising China: Perceptions, Policies and Prospects	166	(15)
Taeho Kim
Indonesia's Perceptions of China: The Domestic Bases of Persistent Ambiguity	181	(24)
Rizal Sukma
Singapore and the Rise of China: Perceptions and Policy	205	(22)
Ian Storey
Malaysian Perceptions of China: From Hostility to Cordiality	227	(21)
Abdul Razak Baginda
Perceptions of a China Threat: A Philippine Perspective	248	(17)
Aileen San Pablo-Baviera
Vietnamese Perspectives of the `China Threat'	265	(23)
Carlyle A. Thayer
The China Threat: A View from India	288	(14)
C.V. Ranganathan
The China Threat: A View from Pakistan	302	(10)
Perviaz Iqbal Cheema
Much Ado about Nothing: Middle Eastern Perceptions of the `China Threat'	312	(20)
Yitzhak Shichor
Index	332