George W. Bush's post‑9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China's contemporary assertiveness
In: International politics: a journal of transnational issues and global problems
ISSN: 1740-3898
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In: International politics: a journal of transnational issues and global problems
ISSN: 1740-3898
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In: International politics: a journal of transnational issues and global problems, Band 61, Heft 3, S. 587-611
ISSN: 1740-3898
AbstractIt is commonly argued that China's foreign policy and behaviour have become increasingly assertive since Xi Jinping took the reins of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This strategic transformation is seen as paving the way for a direct confrontation between China and the USA since the Trump presidency. Drawing on the logic of international order-building, however, this article argues that the groundwork for this strategic change was laid when Hu Jintao was leading the CCP and that what made it possible was George W. Bush's China and East Asia policy after 9/11. Bush's subsequent reduced interest in East Asia enabled China to fill the void left by an absence of US presence and influence in the region. This article asserts that American policy-makers may need to ponder what their order-building project to weaken and exclude an illiberal China should include.
In: Pacific affairs, Band 85, Heft 4, S. 805-806
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: China at 60, S. 229-254
In: The Pacific review, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 265-301
ISSN: 1470-1332
In: The Pacific review, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 265-301
ISSN: 0951-2748
China's rapidly expanding demand for crude oil in the 1990s has brought about debates about the potential impact of the energy challenges facing China. Within the country, energy as a security issue has seized the attention of its leaders. Outside China, international strategic thinkers have been arguing among themselves over how China's thirst for oil would impact on regional peace and stability. This paper sets out to examine the following questions: How and why has the basic need for crude oil been perceived as a security question in China? How does China enhance its oil security? Is the option to engage Russia and Central Asia viable and why? What are the possible impacts of China's oil diplomacy on regional security and stability? It concludes that the oil diplomacy with Kazakhstan and Russia is far from promising. In the short run, China has to rely on the oil in the Middle East and to exploit the resource in its offshore areas in the medium to long term. This may lead to festering relations with Russia, the US, Japan, India and the Southeast Asian nations. The growing presence of China in the Persian Gulf and East and South China Sea gives cause for concern to the US, Japan, India and the Southeast Asian states. (Pac Rev/DÜI)
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In: The China quarterly, Band 172, S. 1065-1103
ISSN: 1468-2648
This book is the result of a conference hosted by the North American Chinese Sociologists Association in Toronto, Canada, in August 1997. It begins with an introductory chapter by Alvin Y. So, and is followed by 15 papers. The papers are divided into four parts, which deal with the roles economic institutions, gender, social networks and the overseas Chinese play in the integration of the three Chinese states.
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 172, S. 1065
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The China quarterly, Band 164, S. 1007-1024
ISSN: 1468-2648
The Third Plenum of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in November 1993 decided in principle for a comprehensive reform of central-provincial fiscal relations. Soon after the Plenum, the central government announced that the new fiscal system, known as the tax-assignment system (fenshuizhi), would be implemented nation-wide in 1994. With the aim of providing adequate revenues for government, particularly the central government, by revamping central-provincial revenue-sharing arrangements, the reform is to "[change] the current fiscal contractual responsibility system of local authorities to a tax assignment system …" and to "gradually increase the percentage of fiscal income in the gross national product (GNP) and rationally determine the proportion between central and local fiscal income."
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 164, S. 1007-1024
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
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In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 164, S. 1007-1024
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The China quarterly, Band 153, S. 175-177
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: Political science, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 252-274
ISSN: 2041-0611
In: Political science, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 252
ISSN: 0112-8760, 0032-3187
In: Political science, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 252-274
ISSN: 0112-8760, 0032-3187