China's Foreign Policy: Challenges And Prospects

by Joseph Yu-shek Cheng

Overview

This volume examines the Chinese foreign policy framework today and traces its evolution since the post-Mao era. Through the consideration of China's relations with the major powers and its management of various challenges ranging from territorial disputes to energy security, it investigates China's pursuit of major power status and influence in peaceful international scenarios.The author critically analyzes China's foreign policy from Chinese leaders' evolving worldview of the changing international environment. As China emerges as a major power and the second largest economy in the world, anyone interested in international politics and scenarios as well as China's foreign policy needs a basic, insightful reference book like this.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814719025
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/20/2016
Pages:	644
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

About the Author xi

Chapter 1 China's Foreign Policy: Coping with the Challenge of Power 1

Part I Overall Framework 41

Chapter 2 The Evolution of China's Foreign Policy in the Post-Mao Era: From Anti-Hegemony to Modernization Diplomacy 43

Chapter 3 China's Foreign Policy in the Mid-1990s 95

Chapter 4 China's Foreign Policy Since the Seventeenth Party Congress 125

Chapter 5 Convincing the World of China's Tradition to Pursue Universal Harmony 165

Part II China's Significant Bilateral Relations 191

Chapter 6 China's Peaceful Rise and the U.S. - Mutual Perceptions, Mutual Trust and Planning for Future Scenarios 193

Chapter 7 Chinese Perceptions of Russian Foreign Policy During the Two Putin Administrations: U.S-Russian Relations and "Strategic Triangle" Considerations 221

Chapter 8 China's Japan Policy: Seeking Stability and Improvement in Uncertainties and Conflicts 259

Chapter 9 China's India Policy: Balancing Global and Bilateral Issues 305

Chapter 10 Sino-Vietnamese Relations in the Early Twenty-first Century: Economics in Command? 345

Chapter 11 China's Iran Policy: Balancing Interests and Managing Expectations 391

Part III China's Management of Various Challenges 417

Chapter 12 A Chinese View of China's Energy Security 419

Chapter 13 Battle Ready? Developing a Blue-water Navy: China's Strategic Dilemma 459

Chapter 14 China's Ocean Development Strategy and its Handling of the Territorial Conflicts in the South China Sea 497

Chapter 15 From Non-interference to a Responsible Major Power: China's Engagement in Darfur 525

Chapter 16 China's Approach to Intervention in the Syrian Crisis: The Challenge of Working through the United Nations System 563

Bibliography 593

Index 619