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• 1. Introduction: The inertia of foreign policies--
• 2. Cold War assumptions and changing realities--
• 3. Regional trends--
• 4. Asia's big powers: Japan and China--
• 5. Smaller places, decisive pivots: Taiwan, Korea, Southeast Asia--
• 6. The aspiring power and its near abroad: India and South Asia--
• 7. Russia and its near abroad--
• 8. The United States and the New Asia--
• 9. Scenarios for the future--
• 10. Conclusion.
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American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and US foreign policy. Drawing on decades of political and business experience, he argues that obsolete Cold War attitudes tie the US increasingly to an otherwise isolated Japan and obscure the reality that a US-Chinese bicondominium now manages most Asian issues. Military priorities risk polarizing the region unnecessarily, weaken the economic relationships that engendered American preeminence, and ironically enhance Chinese influence. As a result, US influence in Asia is declining. Overholt disputes the argument that democracy promotion will lead to superior development and peace, and forecasts a new era in which Asian geopolitics could take a drastically different shape. Covering Japan, China, Russia, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Korea, and South-East Asia, Overholt offers invaluable insights for scholars, policy-makers, business people, and general readers.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Part I: The Puzzle and the Argument
• 1. The Puzzle and China's Amazing Rise
• 2. Power, Interests, and Identity in East Asian International Relations, 1300 to 1900
• 3. Describing East Asia: Alignment Strategies Toward China Part II: East Asia Responds to China
• 4. China: Identity, Sovereignty, and Taiwan
• 5. South Korea: Embracing Interdependence in Search of Security
• 6. Southeast Asia: Accommodating China's Rise
• 7. Japan: A Normal Identity Part III: East Asia and the United States
• 8. The Role of the United States in East Asia
• 9. Conclusions and Implications Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood the world. China is modernizing its military, has joined numerous regional and international institutions, and plays an increasingly visible role in international politics. In response to this growth, other states in East Asia have moved to strengthen their military, economic, and diplomatic relations with China. But why have these countries accommodated rather than balanced China's rise?David C. Kang believes certain preferences and beliefs are responsible for maintaining stability in East Asia. Kang's research shows how East Asian states have grown closer to China, with little evidence that the region is rupturing. Rising powers present opportunities as well as threats, and the economic benefits and military threat China poses for its regional neighbors are both potentially huge; however, East Asian states see substantially more advantage than danger in China's rise, making the region more stable, not less. Furthermore, although East Asian states do not unequivocally welcome China in all areas, they are willing to defer judgment regarding what China wants and what its role in East Asia will become. They believe that a strong China stabilizes East Asia, while a weak China tempts other states to try to control the region.Many scholars downplay the role of ideas and suggest that a rising China will be a destabilizing force in the region, but Kang's provocative argument reveals the flaws in contemporary views of China and the international relations of East Asia and offers a new understanding of the importance of sound U.S. policy in the region.
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• pt. I. International challenges
• pt. II. Regional challenges
• pt. III. Domestic challenges.

This book investigates the major internal and external pressures and constraints facing China as it enters the new century. It is widely recognised that in its capacity as a nuclear power and as a member of the UN's Security Council, China plays a major role in world politics. China is also a growing economic power, which according to some economists is projected to overtake the US 20 years from now. China has clearly emerged as the major power in the East Asian region and the major issues of contention in the region such as the tension on the Korean peninsula, the Taiwan issue and the conflicting territorial claims in the South China seas cannot be resolved without China's active participation.
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• Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION;
• 1. Imperial Repertoires in Republican Xinjiang;
• 2. Collapse of Empires and the Nationalist Threat;
• 3. Rise of the Ethnopopulists;
• 4. Raising the Stakes in Nationalist Xinjiang;
• 5. The Birth Pangs of Chinese Affirmative Action;
• 6. The Xinjiang Government in Exile; Conclusion; NOTES; GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant "colony" of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. By foregrounding the responses of Chinese and other imperial elites to the growing threat of national determination across Eurasia, Justin Jacobs argues for a reconceptualization of the modern Chinese state as a "national empire." He shows how strategies for administering this region in the late Qing, Republican, and Communist eras were molded by, and shaped in response to, the rival platforms of ethnic difference characterized by Soviet and other geopolitical competitors across Inner and East Asia. This riveting narrative tracks Xinjiang political history through the Bolshevik revolution, the warlord years, Chinese civil war, and the large-scale Han immigration in the People's Republic of China, as well as the efforts of the exiled Xinjiang government in Taiwan after 1949 to claim the loyalty of Xinjiang refugees.
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