China's Rise in Asia: Promises and Perils - Tapa blanda

Sutter... skillfully weaves together recent history, current events, and future projections of Asian developments. He is particularly sensitive to how China's 'rise to great-power status' will affect U.S.-China relations. * Foreign Affairs * China's Rise in Asia is a...well-reasoned and balanced assessment of the most pervasive security challenge of our times, not only for the United States but for the whole Asian region. -- Richard Halloran * Taiwan Business Topics * [Sutter] carefully looks at the policy alternatives available to both nations and considers various views and interpretations of government officials, academics, and journalists in both the US and China. He looks at Chinese policies around its periphery, concentrating on Japan, Southeast Asia, and Russia. His conclusions, based on thorough and careful study, are cautious....He carefully balances various points of view and clearly identifies his own perspectives within the spectrums he presents. * CHOICE * This is a carefully researched, well reasoned, and balanced assessment of the most pervasive security challenge of our times, the emergence of China as a political, economic, and military power. * Parameters * No one will accuse [Sutter] of naivete about Beijing's long-range inten?tions. And that shrewdness is the great virtue of this entirely laudable book. -- Robert M. Hathaway, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars This timely book provides a uniquely knowledgeable overview with the author's rare combination of impressive scholarship, extensive policy experience, and focused interviews in all major Asian countries. The book's balanced, comprehensive analysis makes a significant contribution to the ongoing debate over the implications of China's rise in Asia and beyond. -- Yong Deng, U.S. Naval Academy Sutter deserves to be commended for embarking upon this ambitious project, and one that addresses such a timely subject. His study is likely to be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian Studies, International Relations and Strategic Studies, as well as to journalists, scholars, and policymakers alike from a broad range of Asia-Pacific countries. -- Brendan Taylor, The Australian National University * The China Journal * Written by a veteran analyst of Chinese affairs who has been a voice of reason in the often frantic debate over China and U.S.-China relations, this book offers a comprehensive review of China's rise in the Aisa-Pacific region and a nuanced assessment of its possible impact on the U.S. . . . [A] most informative and insightful treatment of the subject. -- Hongying Wang * Journal of Asian Studies * A comprehensive review of China's rise in the Asia-Pacific region and a nuanced assessment of its possible impact on the U.S. . . . Based on the author's exhaustive research, this book offers a great deal of information on China's new diplomacy in the Asia Pacific region and its possible impact on American interests. It is especially valuable becasue it examines the contending perspectives on the rise of China in each of the major contries in the region. Readers will surely find it a most inforamtive and insightful treatment of the subject. * Journal of Asian Studies * Robert Sutter has drawn on his broad academic and government experience to write a comprehensive and detailed account of China's Asia policy and activities since the end of the Cold War, and their implications for the USA. * Asian Affairs *

In this first sustained, singleauthored assessment of China's expanding influence in Asia in the postDCold War period, respected analyst Robert Sutter draws on his extensive experience to explore the current debate on China's military and economic rise and its meaning for U.S. interests. Examining in detail China's current and historical relations with the key countries of Asia, he finds a range of motivations underlying China's recent initiatives. Some incline Chinese policy to be cooperative with the United States, others to be competitive and confrontational. Sutter's nuanced study shows that U.S. influence continues to dominate Asia and plays a critical role in determining China's cooperative or confrontational approach. He argues that the Bush administration's policies of firmness and cooperation have encouraged China to stay on a generally constructive track in the region.