Beijing s Power and China s Borders Book

Beijing s Power and China s Borders

  • Author : Bruce Elleman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release Date : 2014-12-18
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 392
  • ISBN 10 : 9781317515647
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China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some of them never amicably settled. This book brings together some of the foremost historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars on modern Asia to examine each of China's twenty land or sea borders.

Beijing s Power and China s Borders Book

Beijing s Power and China s Borders

  • Author : Bruce Elleman
  • Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
  • Release Date : 2015-05-18
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 392
  • ISBN 10 : 0765627663
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China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some of them never amicably settled. This book brings together some of the foremost historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars on modern Asia to examine each of China's twenty land or sea borders.

China Exposed World Domination Book

China Exposed World Domination

  • Author : Che Chibala
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release Date : 2019-01-06
  • Genre: Political Science
  • Pages : 108
  • ISBN 10 : 1793260826
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The socialist market economy of the People's Republic of China is the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity. Until 2015, China was the world's fastest-growing major economy, with growth rates averaging 10% over 30 years. This growth rate is now estimated to be the same for global influence rate in all fields. The Chinese army is one of the five most powerful armies on earth; with a soldier population is estimated to be 7,054,000 in total, while the American army consists of less than 3 million soldiers. Obviously, Chinese can staff more men in a potent fight with USA.In closing a nationalistic speech to parliament, president Xi Jinping, where laid out China's vision, he promised of a new era of military might. Xi said that any nation interfering in China's territorial integrity would face "the punishment of history."Zambia has anywhere from 13,000 and 23,000 Chinese nationals, and many arrived in the last several years as workers for Chinese state-owned enterprises or private firms. Chinese investors are heavily invested in local mining operations.About 1 million Chinese citizens have arrived in Africa since 2001, with China emerging as Africa's largest trading partner and Chinese companies stepping up investment in oil and infrastructure projects. China's exploitative relationship abroad with African nations became most evident when it was discovered that the Chinese government's gift of a headquarters building and computer network for the African Union in Addis Ababa contained a back door to facilitate the transfer of data to servers in Shanghai. Beijing shells out $20 million a year to lease the real estate for its base in Djibouti, and has already stationed over 1,000 troops there, with sufficient space for 10 times that number if needed. On top of that, the Chinese government "Then I stood on the sand of the sea and behold, a great, fiery red dragon rose up out of the sea, having seven heads and

China s Coming War with Asia Book
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China s Coming War with Asia

  • Author : Jonathan Holslag
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release Date : 2015-03-17
  • Genre: Political Science
  • Pages : 176
  • ISBN 10 : 9780745688268
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China?s ambition is to rise peacefully. Avoiding fierceconflicts with its Asian neighbors is essential to this goal.Jonathan Holslag makes a brilliant case for the geopoliticaldilemma facing the rising China, and his argument that China willlikely enter into major conflict with Asia is compelling andthoughtful. Both Chinese experts and decision-makers will find thisbook illuminating reading. Asia is set for another great power war. As China?s influencespreads beyond its territorial borders and its global aspirationsgain momentum, so tensions with its neighbors are reaching breakingpoint. In this clear-sighted book, Jonathan Holslag debunks themyth of China?s peaceful rise, arguing instead that China?s policyof shrewd intransigence towards other Asian countries willinevitably result in serious conflict. China?s ambitions are not malicious. But what China wants ?namely to maximize its security and prosperity ? will lead to ahuge power imbalance, where China towers above her neighbors,impels them into unequal partnerships, and is increasingly able toseize disputed territory. At present, China?s focused anduncompromising pursuit of its own interests is bearing fruit. Manyof China?s neighbors are still too weak to counter Beijing?sinfluence, and China has ably exploited divisions between them todivide and rule. But several regional powers are now joining forcesto stop China. With the PRC unlikely to back down and nationalismriding high, China?s coming war with Asia is already in themaking.

Strong Borders Secure Nation Book

Strong Borders Secure Nation

  • Author : M. Taylor Fravel
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 2008
  • Genre: Political Science
  • Pages : 404
  • ISBN 10 : UOM:39015077658733
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As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. The first comprehensive study of China's territorial disputes, Strong Borders, Secure Nation contends that China over the past sixty years has been more likely to compromise in these conflicts with its Asian neighbors and less likely to use force than many scholars or analysts might expect. By developing theories of cooperation and escalation in territorial disputes, Fravel explains China's willingness to either compromise or use force. When faced with internal threats to regime security, especially ethnic rebellion, China has been willing to offer concessions in exchange for assistance that strengthens the state's control over its territory and people. By contrast, China has used force to halt or reverse decline in its bargaining power in disputes with its militarily most powerful neighbors or in disputes where it has controlled none of the land being contested. Drawing on a rich array of previously unexamined Chinese language sources, Strong Borders, Secure Nation offers a compelling account of China's foreign policy on one of the most volatile issues in international relations.

Localities at the Center Book

Localities at the Center

  • Author : Richard David Belsky
  • Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
  • Release Date : 2005
  • Genre: Associations, institutions, etc
  • Pages : 346
  • ISBN 10 : 9780674019560
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Native-place lodges are often cited as an example of the particularistic ties that hindered the emergence of a modern state based on loyalty to the nation. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, native-place lodges fostered a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms in the early 20th century.

One Road Many Dreams Book

One Road Many Dreams

  • Author : Daniel Drache
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release Date : 2019-07-11
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 10 : 9781912392063
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One Belt, One Road is China's bold plan to remake the global economy. It's an ambitious strategy with a $2 trillion – and rising – budget. The objective? To challenge the existing economic and political world order. One Road, Many Dreams reveals the true extent of China's ambition, analyses the impact of the One Belt, One Road initiative and assesses its chances of success and failure. This is the Asian century and China has a plan – to remake the world economy. Under its audacious One Belt, One Road strategy, China is investing trillions of dollars in hundreds of projects all around the globe. It's buying up ports, building transport networks and constructing major infrastructure. From hydroelectric plants to oil pipelines, China supplies the labour if needed, the raw materials and the finance, creating customers and boosting its own economy in the process. More than 80 nations have already joined China's increasingly less exclusive club and by 2049, when One Belt, One Road is set to end, its number of members is likely to rival the UN. So far, China has exercised its soft power of debt diplomacy and financial might shrewdly, serving the planet's overlooked middle-income and poor countries. The rest of the world needs to wake up because the scale of One Belt, One Road is unprecedented. Its implications for the global structure of power are potentially seismic as the geopolitical ties between Europe and Asia deepen. Written by three highly regarded political economists, One Road, Many Dreams examines the One Belt, One Road initiative from all angles. It looks at the projects and the players, the alliances and the governance. It explores the opportunities for China and the threat to the West, particularly for Trump's isolationist US administration. At home and abroad, China is staking its credibility as a superpower on One Belt, One Road. Its resources appear limitless, but One Road, Many Dreams asks a tough question: has China overreached? Or can it really pul

Beijing Book
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Beijing

  • Author : Philip Gambone
  • Publisher : Terrace Books
  • Release Date : 2003-05-01
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 312
  • ISBN 10 : 9780299184933
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Escaping his ghosts, AIDS widower David Masiello accepts a one-year position at a Western medical clinic in Beijing. Lonely but excited, he sets out to explore the city—both its bustling street life and its clandestine gay subculture. David chronicles his adventures in China as he wrestles with cultural dislocation, loneliness, and sexual and spiritual longing. After a series of both comic and poignant encounters with gay Chinese men, he meets Bosheng, a handsome young artist. Though the attraction is strong, a difficult courtship ensues, during which Bosheng returns to his ancestral village to marry the girl his parents have chosen for him. Eventually, and quite unexpectedly, David and Bosheng reconnect and share an idyllic spring together. As the year ends, David must decide whether to say goodbye or face the uncertainties of a long-distance relationship. Gambone’s novel is peopled with a host of wonderfully memorable characters: Owen, David’s forthright best friend back home; Auntie Chen, the clinic’s office mom, who wants to fix David up with a girlfriend; Stewart, David’s Beijing roommate, a graduate student doing research on Peking opera; Jiantao and Guoyang, two lovers who lecture David on the fleeting quality of American romance; and Tyson, the Australian doctor with a Chinese girlfriend, who hopes to teach David that love doesn’t need any explanations or justifications.

China Goes to Sea Book

China Goes to Sea

  • Author : Andrew S. Erickson
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release Date : 2009-07-01
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 530
  • ISBN 10 : 9781612511528
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In modern history, China has been primarily a land power, dominating smaller states along its massive continental flanks. But China’s turn toward the sea is now very much a reality, as evident in its stunning rise in global shipbuilding markets, its vast and expanding merchant marine, the wide offshore reach of its energy and minerals exploration companies, its growing fishing fleet, and indeed its increasingly modern navy. Yet, for all these achievements, there is still profound skepticism regarding China’s potential as a genuine maritime power. Beijing must still import the most vital subcomponents for its shipyards, maritime governance remains severely bureaucratically challenged, and the navy evinces, at least as of yet, little enthusiasm for significant blue water power projection capabilities. This volume provides a truly comprehensive assessment of prospects for China’s maritime development by situating these important geostrategic phenomena within a larger world historical context. China is hardly the only land power in history to attempt transformation by fostering sea power. Many continental powers have elected or been impelled to transform themselves into significant maritime powers in order to safeguard their strategic position or advance their interests. We examine cases of attempted transformation from the Persian Empire to the Soviet Union, and determine the reasons for their success or failure. Too many works on China view the nation in isolation. Of course, China’s history and culture are to some extent exceptional, but building intellectual fences actually hinders the effort to understand China’s current development trajectory. Without underestimating the enduring pull of China’s past as it relates to threats to the country’s internal stability and its landward borders, this comparative study provides reason to believe that China has turned the corner on a genuine maritime transformation. If that proves indeed to be the case, it would

The Emperor s New Road Book

The Emperor s New Road

  • Author : Jonathan E. Hillman
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release Date : 2020-09-29
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 303
  • ISBN 10 : 9780300244588
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A prominent authority on China’s Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing’s project of the century China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the world’s most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision. To carry out President Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign-policy effort, China promises to spend over one trillion dollars for new ports, railways, fiber-optic cables, power plants, and other connections. The plan touches more than one hundred and thirty countries and has expanded into the Arctic, cyberspace, and even outer space. Beijing says that it is promoting global development, but Washington warns that it is charting a path to global dominance. Taking readers on a journey to China’s projects in Asia, Europe, and Africa, Jonathan E. Hillman reveals how this grand vision is unfolding. As China pushes beyond its borders and deep into dangerous territory, it is repeating the mistakes of the great powers that came before it, Hillman argues. If China succeeds, it will remake the world and place itself at the center of everything. But Xi may be overreaching: all roads do not yet lead to Beijing.

China s Western Horizon Book
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China s Western Horizon

  • Author : Daniel Markey
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release Date : 2020
  • Genre: Asia, Central
  • Pages : 337
  • ISBN 10 : 9780190680190
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Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is zealously transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global political influence. But China's foreign policy initiatives, even the vaunted "Belt and Road," will be shaped and redefined as they confront theground realities of local and regional politics outside China. In China's Western Horizon, Daniel S. Markey, a scholar of international relations and former member of the U.S. State Department's policy planning staff, previews how China's efforts are likely to play out in its own "backyard:" theswath of Eurasia that includes South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Drawing from his extensive interviews, travels, and historical research, Markey describes how perceptions of China vary widely within states like Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Iran.The region's powerful and privileged groups often expect to profit from their connections to China, while others fear commercial and political losses. Similarly, statesmen across Eurasia are scrambling to harness China's energy purchases, arms sales, and infrastructure investments as a means tooutdo their strategic competitors, like India and Saudi Arabia, while negotiating relations with Russia and America. On balance, Markey anticipates that China's deepening involvement will play to the advantage of regional strongmen and exacerbate the political tensions within and among Eurasianstates. To make the most of America's limited influence in China's backyard (and elsewhere), he argues that U.S. policymakers should pursue a selective and localized strategy to serve America's aims in Eurasia and to better compete with China over the long run.

Inside Xinjiang Book

Inside Xinjiang

  • Author : Anna Hayes
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release Date : 2015-12-14
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 286
  • ISBN 10 : 9781317672494
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The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang have recently increased, occasionally breaking out into violence. At the same time as being a potential troublespot for China, the province is of increasing strategic significance as China’s gateway to Central Asia whose natural resources are of increasing importance to China. This book focuses in particular on what life is like in Xinjiang for the diverse population that lives there. It offers important insights into the social, economic and political terrains of Xinjiang, concentrating especially on how current trends in Xinjiang are likely to develop in the future. In doing so it provides a broader understanding of the region and its peoples.

Rickshaw Beijing Book

Rickshaw Beijing

  • Author : David Strand
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release Date : 1989
  • Genre: NON-CLASSIFIABLE.
  • Pages : 392
  • ISBN 10 : 0520063112
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Based on the author's dissertation. Includes bibliographical references.

The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress Book

The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress

  • Author : Andrew J. Nathan
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release Date : 1998
  • Genre: China
  • Pages : 292
  • ISBN 10 : 0393317846
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Many see China and the United States on the path to confrontation. The Chinese leadership violates human rights norms. It maintains a harsh rule in Tibet, spars aggressively with Taiwan, and is clamping down on Hong Kong. A rising power with enormous assets, China increasingly considers American interests an obstacle to its own.But, the authors argue, the United States is the least of China's problems. Despite its sheer size, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military forces, China remains a vulnerable power, crowded on all sides by powerful rivals and potential foes. As it has throughout its history, China faces immense security challenges, and their sources are at and within China's own borders. China's foreign policy is calibrated to defend its territorial integrity against antagonists who are numerous, near, and strong.The authors trace the implications of this central point for China's relations with the United States and the rest of the world.

Peking Book

Peking

  • Author : Susan Naquin
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release Date : 2000
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 854
  • ISBN 10 : 9780520219915
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A monumental social history of Peking over 500 years seen through the lens of the temple and with attention to and appreciation of the role religion played in the development of the imperial capital.