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Introduction / Herbert Yee -- 1. China's rise and China-US relations / Henry Kissinger -- 2. Power transition theory : a challenge to the peaceful rise of world power China / Edward Friedman -- 3. Core elements in a rising China's foreign policy and key issues in Sino-American relations : trans-Pacific observations / Ming K. Chan -- 4. Russia and an ascendant China / Alexander Lukin -- 5. European perspectives on China's rise / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- 6. Speak softly and carry a big stick : non-traditional Chinese threats and Middle Eastern instability / Yitzhak Shichor -- 7. Japan's perspectives towards a rising China / Emi Mifune -- 8. The rise of China : challenges and opportunities to the Japanese economy / Hideo Ohashi -- 9. South Korea and a rising China : perception of ambivalence and the policy of hedging / Sukhee Han -- 10. Indian perspectives on China : concerns and prospects / Srikanth Kondapalli -- 11. Accommodation with hedging : southeast Asia's changing perspectives towards China / Aileen S.P. Baviera -- 12. Indonesia's perceptions of the "China Threat" : from "Yellow Threat from the North" to "Strategic Partner" / Christine Susanna Tjhin -- 13. The "China Threat" in the context of China's rise : a view from Australia / Colin Mackerras -- 14. China and Brazil in the 21st century : towards a developed and harmonious world order / Severino Bezerra Cabral Filho -- 15. Building development capable states in Africa : in search of a Chinese alternative / Akongbowa Bramwell Amadasun and Iwaloye O. Olukayode -- 16. The response of Hong Kong and Macau to the rise of mainland China : trends, scenarios and political implications / Sonny Lo -- 17. From "China Threat" to "China's Responsibility" : changing international discourse on China and China's response / Jin Canrong -- 18. The China studies that defend Chineseness : the im/possibility of China centrism in the divided Sino-phone world / Chih-Yu Shih and Teng-Chi Chang.

This book argues that the HKSAR government has encountered a crisis of performance legitimacy. Legitimacy, according to Huntington, has procedure and performance aspects. As the HKSAR's Chief Executive is not directly elected by universal suffrage, his procedure legitimacy is relatively weak and he has to rely on performance to buttress legitimacy. Unfortunately, from July 1997 to April 2001, the performance legitimacy of the HKSAR government was plagued by mismanagement of the civil service and of various crises.