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S09/0400 --- S10/0825 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Asia: general --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Water transportation: since 1949 --- S10/0825China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Asia: general

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This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea, and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux. The past few decades have witnessed a bifurcated trend in China's management of territorial disputes. Over the years, while China gradually calmed and settled most land-border disputes with its neighbors, disputes on the ocean frontier continued to simmer in a seething cauldron. This book attributes the distinctive path of China's approach to maritime disputes to a unique factor - the law of the sea (LOS) as the 'rules of the road' in the ocean. By deconstructing the concept of 'sovereignty' and treating the LOS as an evolving regime, the book examines how the changing dynamics of the LOS regime have complicated and reshaped the nature and content of sovereign disputes in the ocean regime as well as the options of settlement. Applying the findings to the South China Sea case, the author traces the learning curve on which China has embarked to comprehend the complexity of the dispute accordingly and finds that it is the dynamic interaction of the law of the sea regime and the geopolitical conditions that has driven the evolution of China's South China Sea policy.

SOUTH CHINA SEA --- LAW OF THE SEA --- S09/0400 --- S09/0412 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Asia: general --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and South-East Asia (incl. Vietnamese war)

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China's protracted boom and political transformation is a major episode in the history of global political economy. Beginning in the late 1970s, China experienced a quarter century of extraordinary growth that raised every indicator of material welfare, lifted several hundred million out of poverty, and rocketed China from near autarky to regional and even global prominence. These striking developments transformed China into a major U.S. trade and investment partner, a regional military power, and a major influence on national economies and cross-national interchange throughout the Pacific region. Beijing has emerged as a voice for East Asian economic interests and an arbiter in regional and even global diplomacy-from the Asian financial crisis to the North Korean nuclear talks. China's accession to the World Trade Organization promises to accentuate these trends.The contributors to this volume provide a multifaceted examination of China in the areas of economics, trade, investment, politics, diplomacy, technology, and security, affording a greater understanding of what relevant policies the United States must develop. This book offers a counterweight to overwrought concerns about the emerging "Chinese threat" and makes the case for viewing China as a force for stability in the twenty-first century.

China --- Asia --- Economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Economic integration --- S09/0400 --- S10/0687 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Asia: general --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Asia-China economic relations --- Economic integration. --- Economic policy. --- Foreign economic relations. --- China - Economic policy --- China - Foreign economic relations --- Asia - Economic integration --- Chile --- Political Science --- Business & Economics

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China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's back yard : the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smouldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. The author, a journalist with extensive experience in the region, examines the high stakes involved for rival nations that include Vietnam, India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and China, as well as the United States, Russia, and others. He also lays out the daunting obstacles that stand in the way of peaceful resolution.

S09/0400 --- S10/0820 --- S10/0825 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Asia: general --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Water transportation: general and before 1949 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Water transportation: since 1949 --- S10/0825China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Asia: general --- International relations. Foreign policy --- South China Sea --- China --- International status. --- Boundaries. --- Foreign relations

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This book studies the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Japan as the basis of the construction and maintenance of economic and security arrangements in the Asia-Pacific. It explains how these arrangements have been challenged by the occasionally testy ties between these two major Asian powers and explores their dynamic interactions in promoting their own agenda and ambitions, and obstructing that of the other's in contending for leadership of East Asia.

Japan --- China --- Foreign relations --- S09/0415 --- S09/0400 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Japan --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Central Asia --- J4812.14 --- J4810.90 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Asia -- China --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary