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Looking for Balance - China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia (Paperback)
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Looking for Balance - China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Asian Security
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Debate surrounding "China's rise," and the prospects of its
possible challenge to America's preeminence, has focused on two
questions: whether the United States should "contain" or "engage"
China; and whether the rise of Chinese power has inclined other
East Asian states to "balance" against Beijing by alignment with
the United States or ramping up their military expenditures.
By drawing on alternative theoretic approaches--most especially
"balance-of-threat" theory, political economic theory, and theories
of regime survival and economic interdependence, Steve Chan is able
to create an explanation of regional developments that differs
widely from the traditional "strategic vision" of national
interest.
He concludes that China's primary aim is not to match U.S. military
might or the foreign policy influence that flows from that power,
and that its neighbors are not balancing against its rising power
because, in today's guns-versus-butter fiscal reality, balancing
policies would entail forfeiting possible gains that can accrue
from cooperation, economic growth, and the application of GDP to
nonmilitary ends. Instead, most East Asian countries have
collectively pivoted to a strategy of elite legitimacy and regime
survival based on economic performance.
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