‘China’, Napoleon once remarked, ‘is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.’ In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken.
From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to presenting itself as a world leader in the fight against climate change, a newly confident China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. With the Belt and Road initiative, billed as a new Silk Road for the 21st Century, China is set to extend its influence throughout Eurasia and across the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. But with the Chinese and US militaries also vying over the Pacific, does this newfound confidence put China on a collision course with the US?
Combining a geopolitical overview with on-the-ground reportage from a dozen countries, this new edition of China’s Asian Dream engages with the most recent developments in the ongoing story of China’s ascendency, and offers new insights into what the rise of China means not only for Asia, but for the world.
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The latest edition of Miller’s seminal work, exploring what China’s rise means for the future of Asia, and of the world.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. “One Belt, One Road”: Financing the New Silk Road
Belt and Road Initiative
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Asia’s infrastructure arms race
2. Marching West: The Economics of Power in Central Asia
Xinjiang
Central Asia
Russia
3. In the Heat of the Sun: Advancing Down the Mekong
Laos
Cambodia
4. California Dreamin’: How China “Lost” Myanmar
Gateway to the Bay of Bengal
5. A String of Pearls: Fear and Loathing in the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
6. Fiery Waters: Mapping the South China Sea
Vietnam
Conclusion
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[A] vivid and useful guide to China’s unfolding strategy and its economic and diplomatic ramifications.
The latest edition of Miller’s seminal work, exploring what China’s rise means for the future of Asia, and of the world.
This new edition updates the book’s argument and engages with the latest developments, and looks beyond China’s economic ‘dream’ in Asia to assess the growing risk of a clash with the US.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786997418
Publisert
2019-07-15
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books Ltd
Vekt
304 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
00, P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304
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