Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to fl…
China's dramatic economic growth since the 1970s has seemed inexorable. The resulting rise in international profile has provoked a lively argument regarding the fundamental economic and strategic challenges to the rest of the world that China now presents. China Rising examines the extent to which that country's future foreign policy stance may be shaped by its own agendas and constrained thro…
Ten Episodes in China diplomacy by Qian Qichen, in which he describes his experiences as a diplomat, is the most detailed, informative, insightful account of recent Chinese foreign policy by any Chinese official or scholar. Full content: Normalization of Sino-Soviet relations The Paris Conference on Cambodia Flying to Baghdad "Funeral diplomacy" in Tokyo The road to Seoul Withstanding …