Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy of an Emerging Global Force

423 Pages·2020·4.623 MB·English

by  Robert G. Sutter

Chinese Foreign Relations

Chinese Foreign Relations
Power and Policy of an
Emerging Global Force
Fifth Edition
Robert G. Sutter
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Contents
PrefacetotheFifthEdition vii
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
1 ContinuityandChangeinContemporaryChineseForeignPolicy 1
2 LeadershipPriorities,DecisionMaking,andWorldviews 21
3 China’sRoleintheWorldEconomy 45
4 China,Multilateralism,andInternationalGovernance 71
5 ChineseNationalSecurityPolicies 99
6 RelationswiththeUnitedStates 125
7 RelationswithTaiwan 153
8 RelationswithJapanandKorea 171
9 RelationswithSoutheastAsia,Australia,NewZealand,andthe
PacificIslands 199
10 RelationswithSouthernAsiaandCentralAsia 219
11 RelationswithRussiaandEurope 243
12 RelationswiththeMiddleEast,Africa,andLatinAmerica 269
13 AssessingChina’sRiseamidAcuteRivalrywithAmerica 301
Notes 315
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SelectedBibliography 371
Index 389
AbouttheAuthor 407
Preface to the Fifth Edition
This edition is substantially different from earlier editions of this volume.
Those editions devoted considerable coverage to the pros and cons in an
ongoing debate over whether China would continue the moderate approach
to foreign affairs that prevailed in the first years of the twenty-first century.
That debate has now ended with the ever stronger measures of assertive
foreign policy carried out under the direction of Chinese Communist Party
leaderandstatepresidentXiJinping(2012–).
This edition thus removes much of the language in the previous editions
dealing with the now past debate. It focuses more on the challenges to the
international status quo posed by more assertive Chinese foreign policy be-
havior.Insodoing,itdiffersfromexistingsurveysofrecentChineseforeign
relationsinofferingacomprehensiveassessmentofnewlyprominentuncon-
ventional Chinese levers of power and influence in foreign affairs that have
heretofore been disguised, hidden, denied, or otherwise neglected or unap-
preciated by foreign specialists. A variety of in-depth government, think
tank,andmediareportsthroughoutWesterncountriesandthosestates locat-
edalongChina’srimhavefeaturedvariedexplanationsanddisclosuresabout
these unconventional levers of power and influence. They provide the
sourcesinsupportofthecomprehensivetreatmentinthisvolume.Theauthor
judgesthatwithoutcarefultreatmentoftheevidenceinthese disclosures,an
assessmentofChineseforeignrelationswillbepartialandflawed.
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Acknowledgments
The publication of this major revision of this book depended on the expert
guidance and sustained support of Susan McEachern, vice president and
senior acquisitions editor at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, and the pub-
lisher’seffectiveandefficientproductionstaff.
Asnotedintheprefacetothisfifthedition,theauthorisgreatly indebted
tothemanyinvestigatorsandspecialistsintheUnitedStates,Europe,andthe
Asia-Pacific who in the past three years have revealed unconventional Chi-
nese levers of power and influence in foreign affairs that were heretofore
disguised, hidden, denied, or otherwise neglected or unappreciated by
foreign specialists in assessing Chinese foreign relations. They have under-
scored with empirical data and specific case studies why this volume is
markedlydifferentfrompreviouseditions,whichdevotedconsiderableatten-
tion to ongoing debates on whether China’s moderate approach to foreign
affairs at the start of the twenty-first century would continue. That debate is
nowseenasendedaswearecompelledtoassessthemultifacetedpowerand
policyoftheemergingglobalforceofChina.
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