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This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors
in international relations. Through an analysis of the
international actorness — the inherent characteristics of a
subnational entity as an international player — of Yunnan and two
other geographically peripheral provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi,
the domestic, economic and legislative circumstances that motivated
these provinces to conduct transboundary engagements is determined.
The study is based on an extensive field study including interviews
with those involved in the implementation of Yunnan’s foreign
agenda, representatives from province-owned enterprises,
universities and think tanks, and officials and experts from the
countries neighbouring Yunnan. Acknowledging the role of external
geopolitics, the authors analyse the efforts of these border
provinces to incentivise neighbouring countries to cooperate with
them on areas of trade, investment and non-traditional security.
Yao Song and Tianyang Liu also observe how border provinces have
leveraged their paradiplomatic strengths to affect China’s
foreign relations with neighbouring countries. This volume will
appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduates in political
science, international relations, and diplomacy as well as
geography, Southeast Asian politics, political economy, Chinese
periphery diplomacy, and non-federal paradiplomacy.
This book explores how the Chinese government reasserts its control
and management of public spaces as part of its overall
counter-terrorism strategy. The work focuses primarily on the banal
and alternative forms that China’s ‘war on terror’ takes: the
everyday, non-military, socio-economic and spatio-material. It
presents three different cases of control associated with the
state’s effort to manage material, social and digital public
spaces as remedies to terrorism and ethnic unrest in China: the
redevelopment project of Kashgar—the ‘home’ of Uyghur
culture—from 2001 to 2017; the forging of local partnerships with
potential agents (i.e. the local cadres and imams in Xinjiang) as
part of the process of implementing counter-terrorism policies; and
an online campaign about international terrorism that appeared on
Sina Weibo. Using securitization theory as a theoretical framework,
the book establishes links between human geography and critical
security studies and advances the understanding of
non-confrontational forms of resistance in China. It also focuses
attention on the binary relationship between the securitizing
agency of the state and the counter-securitization agency of
‘terrorists’, while also exploring the manner in which other
societal forces interact with these processes. This book will be of
interest to students of critical terrorism studies, Chinese
studies, human geography, and security studies.
This book explores how the Chinese government reasserts its control
and management of public spaces as part of its overall
counter-terrorism strategy. The work focuses primarily on the banal
and alternative forms that China's 'war on terror' takes: the
everyday, non-military, socio-economic and spatio-material. It
presents three different cases of control associated with the
state's effort to manage material, social and digital public spaces
as remedies to terrorism and ethnic unrest in China: the
redevelopment project of Kashgar-the 'home' of Uyghur culture-from
2001 to 2017; the forging of local partnerships with potential
agents (i.e. the local cadres and imams in Xinjiang) as part of the
process of implementing counter-terrorism policies; and an online
campaign about international terrorism that appeared on Sina Weibo.
Using securitization theory as a theoretical framework, the book
establishes links between human geography and critical security
studies and advances the understanding of non-confrontational forms
of resistance in China. It also focuses attention on the binary
relationship between the securitizing agency of the state and the
counter-securitization agency of 'terrorists', while also exploring
the manner in which other societal forces interact with these
processes. This book will be of interest to students of critical
terrorism studies, Chinese studies, human geography, and security
studies.
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