Rising Star China's New Security Diplomacy

by Gill, Bates

• ISBN13: 9780815704539
• ISBN10: 0815704534
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creatingboth challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combinationof pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deftdiplomacy, China has established productive and increasingly solid relationshipsthroughout Asia and around the globe. Yet U.S. policymakers are still trying tocomprehend these critical changes. Rising Starprovides a coherent frameworkfor understanding China's new security diplomacy and guiding America's Chinapolicy. Bates Gill has completely updated his original analysis, focusing on Chinesepolicy in three areas: regional security mechanisms, nonproliferation and armscontrol, and questions of sovereignty and intervention. Looking to the future,he offers specific recommendations for a balanced and realistic approach thatemphasizes what China and the United States have in common, rather than whatdivides them. The main arguments and recommendations of the original bookcontinue to hold true and, in many respects, are more compelling now than everbefore given China's continued ascendancy.