1st Edition

China-US Relations Transformed Perspectives and Strategic Interactions

Edited By Suisheng Zhao Copyright 2008
250 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

China’s emergence in the 21 st century to the status of great power has significant implications for its relationship with the United States, the sole superpower in the post-Cold War World. Now that China is rising as an economic, political, and military power and has expanded its diplomatic activism beyond Asia into Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, its rise has profoundly... Read more

I. Introduction  1. Implications of China’s Rise for US-China Relations  Suisheng Zhao  2. China Rising: Geo-Strategic Thrust and Diplomatic Engagement  Suisheng Zhao  II. Perspectives of Chinese Scholars   3. Learning to live with the Hegemon: China’s Policy toward the U.S. Since the End of the Cold War  Jia Qingguo  4. Complexity and Transformational Structure of China-US Relations  Chen Dongxiao  5. Comparing Security Concepts of China and the United States  Xu Jian  6. Nuclear Deterrence and Sino-U.S. Strategic Relationship  Zhang Baohui  7. China-US Economic Relations and the Trade Imbalance Issue  Li Wei  III. Perspectives of US-based Scholars  8. Managing a Multifaceted Relationship with China  Phillip Saunders  9. The Domestic Political Game Behind the Engagement Strategy  Jean Garrison  10. Chinese Military Modernization and Energy Security: Conflict or Cooperation?  Bernard Cole  11. The Rise of China and Sino-American Energy Cooperation  June Teufel Dreyer  12. China’s Economic Rise: Implications for the United States  Pieter Bottelier  13. China, the US and Japan: Reconfiguring Relations in Southeast Asia  Elizabeth Economy

Biography

Suisheng Zhao is Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation and a Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA. A founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, he is the author and editor of eight books, including Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law versus Democratization, and A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism