Looking North, Looking South

by Brady, Anne-Marie

• ISBN13: 9789814304382
• ISBN10: 9814304387
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Looking North, Looking South brings together the works of leading China, Taiwan, and Pacific politics specialists analysing a topic of growing importance: China and Taiwan's ever-growing involvement in the South Pacific. There is no doubt that China is on the rise in Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbeans, and even the Antarctica and the Arctic, this rise can be partly attributed to China's activities in the South Pacific. This book will pinpoint China's involvement in the South Pacific within the context of China's wider foreign policy and the challenges it poses to the traditional dominant powers of the region - the China-Taiwan rivalry has helped to seriously alter the balance of traditional influence in the South Pacific where China is now one of the largest aid donors in the region, squeezing out Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, both in terms of funding and influence.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
About the Authors	p. xv
China and Taiwan's South Pacific Rivalry
The South Pacific: China's New Frontier	p. 3
The Software of China-Pacific Island Relations	p. 35
Sino-Pacifica: Extra-Territorial Influence and the Overseas Chinese	p. 49
China: Stumbling Through the Pacific?	p. 83
The Security Implications of Cross-Strait Competition in the South Pacific from a Taiwanese Perspective	p. 113
The Impact on Other Key Pacific Players
Rising Chinese Influence in the South Pacific: Beijing's Island Fever	p. 137
Big Trouble in Little Chinatown: Australia, Taiwan and the April 2006 Post-Election Riot in Solomon Islands	p. 163
New Zealand, the Pacific and China: The Challenges Ahead	p. 189
Chinese Foreign Policy in the Pacific: Two Perspectives
Chinese Foreign Policy in Asia: Implications for the South Pacific	p. 227
The South Pacific in China's Grand Strategy	p. 259
Index	p. 283
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