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2. Myanmar's China Policy since 2011: Determinants and Directions.
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MYOE, Maung Aung
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FOREIGN relations of the United States ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,POLITICAL reform - Abstract
This paper argues that a key factor in Myanmar's new approach towards China since 2011 has been the Myanmar government's foreign policy goal to reintegrate itself into the international community. The success of this approach is dependent on Myanmar's rapprochement with the United States, which requires both domestic political reforms and a foreign policy realignment - a need to reduce Myanmar's dependence on China, particularly in the context of US-China strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific region. In the context of China-Myanmar relations, the factors that have influenced Myanmar's China policy since 2011 are growing anti-China sentiment in Myanmar, growing concern over China's interference in Myanmar affairs, and the rapprochement with the United States. Myanmar's China policy shift, in terms of direction, is by no means to seek to be independent of China, but rather for there to be an increased interdependence between the two countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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3. A Modernização Militar da China e a Distribuição de Poder no Leste Asiático.
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Coelho Dornelles Jr., Arthur
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MILITARY modernization (Equipment) ,CHINESE military ,ARMED Forces ,FOREIGN relations of the United States ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
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- 2014
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4. Contending visions of East Asian regional order: insights from the United States, China, Japan, and Indonesia.
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Singh, Bhubhindar, Teo, Sarah, Ho, Shawn, and Tsjeng, Henrick
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,BALANCE of power ,GREAT powers (International relations) ,FOREIGN relations of the United States ,JAPANESE foreign relations - Abstract
This article challenges the simplistic view that U.S. leadership in East Asia is weakening relative to China's increasing ability to shape the regional order, which will force other states to choose between these two powers. Based on interviews with political elites, analysts, and academics in the United States, China, Japan, and Indonesia, we argue that the East Asian order transition is more complex and nuanced, especially when we examine views toward: (1) the Sino–U.S. rivalry for regional leadership; (2) whether Chinese initiatives such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road Initiative disrupt the current order; and (3) the preferred vision of regional order for each of the four countries. While there is hardly a consensus view about issues of regional order, it appears that in the short to medium term, China is not expected to substantially overhaul the existing East Asian order. Nevertheless, Beijing is likely to chip away at U.S. regional leadership and, in the long term, would presumably seek to create an order that would sustain its rise and maintain its regional preponderance. The responses of other regional stakeholders toward these developments would be vital in shaping the collective impact on the East Asian order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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5. Regime security first: explaining Vietnam's security policies towards the United States and China (1992–2012).
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Liu, Ruonan and Sun, Xuefeng
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NATIONAL security ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,FOREIGN relations of the United States ,POST-Cold War Period ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
China's rise in recent years has exacerbated Vietnam–China security tensions over maritime disputes in the South China Sea. To manage its security competition with China, Vietnam has simultaneously improved its security cooperation with the United States while maintaining a safe distance from it, in efforts to reassure China. This article attempts to explore the dynamics of the Vietnam's security policy towards the United States and China in the Post-Cold War era. The authors find that the combinations of Vietnam's Post-Cold War security policy towards the United States and China are shaped by its concerns over regime security with respect to the primary threats of infiltration by US democratic norms and of excessive anti-Chinese nationalism. The relative levels of both these risks lead to various combinations of Vietnam's security policies vis-à-vis the United States and China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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6. Hedging in search of a new age of non-alignment: Myanmar between China and the USA.
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Fiori, Antonio and Passeri, Andrea
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HEDGING (Finance) ,FOREIGN relations of the United States ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
The American ‘return’ to East Asia is currently characterized by a particularly high degree of competition with Beijing among the small and medium powers of Southeast Asia, where the recent Chinese ‘charm offensive’ achieved its most significant outcomes. This article, hence, aims to explore the nature and patters of this ongoing process of strategic repositioning put into practice by Myanmar within the political triangle with Washington and Beijing. Against this backdrop, we will draw upon the conceptualization of ‘hedging strategy’, which identifies a set of multidimensional ‘insurance policies’ adopted by small actors in their relations vis-à-vis great powers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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7. A Containment of China? Oil, Asia, and the War on Terrorism.
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Blazevic, Jason
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ENERGY policy , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *COUNTERTERRORISM , *PETROLEUM industry ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
Western Political Science Association WPSA 2007 ConferenceCalifornia State University Las Vegas, NevadaProposal / Abstract byJason BlazevicDepartment of HistoryWashington State UniversityFormal Title:A Containment of China? Oil, Asia, and The War on Terrorism. Oil is one of the foundational elements needed for economic strength. United States (U.S.) strategy entails not only corporate and governmental presence (and domination), but also military presence and domination in many oil producing regions around the world. However that strategy could lead to higher stress between the U.S. and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Many PRC government as well as CCP officials believe that some U.S. policies are meant to contain the PRC and thwart access to the oil which they need. The PRC has also threatened and fought with its neighbors over oil producing areas. The PRC is also increasingly seen as a threatening factor to the sea lanes of communication (SLOC) in Southeast and East Asia. Another aspect accentuating the tension is Taiwan which is located in one of the most strategic points in the sea lanes of the region. Conflicts periodically occur when great powers pursue what they determine is in their legitimate interest. As the only superpower, the interests of the U.S. are global. As a regional power and possible future superpower the interests of the PRC are largely regional, but increasingly global. Oil is a key aspect to the PRC's global political and economic ambitions as well as their own domestic stability. The PRC's quest for oil throughout the world shows their potential for economic growth. In 1992 Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and I. Lewis Libbly co-authored the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance report. The report suggested that the PRC was the greatest challenger to U.S. global hegemony and therefore the greatest threat. The PRC's deepening relations with various oil-rich nations in Central and Southeast Asia and the Middle East as well as Africa were seen as a threat to the U.S. That report as well as others explained that the PRC's oil needs would grow and suggested building U.S. led alliances to dominate resource-rich regions. In the aftermath of 9/11 the George W. Bush Administration embarked on the War on Terrorism. U.S. strategy involved the building of economic, military, and political relations with various nations in order to effectively fight terrorism. New alliances and pacts were constructed from Central to Southeast Asia to combat terrorism. Some nations which have taken part in those alliances and pacts were Pakistan, Afghanistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Philippines, India, and Australia. Deepening relations between the U.S. and India as well as Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, and the Philippines has greatly enhanced U.S. power in Asia as well as in the regions sea lanes of communication. The PRC has become increasingly concerned that U.S. led alliances and pacts could block its [PRC] purchases of natural resources to destabilize it. The PRC's solution to that probability is an increase in the power projection of their military into the South China Sea, Bay of Bengal, and East China Sea. Indeed in the not to distant future the U.S. and PRC may find their relations becoming more strained possibly developing into conflict in Asia.Jason BlazevicDepartment of History Washington State University ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
8. Patterns of leadership in the Asia-Pacific: a symposium.
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Beeson, Mark and Stone, Diane
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FOREIGN relations of the United States ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Leadership at the regional level has come under the spotlight not only in the post-Cold War context, but also more recently following the global financial crisis. Yet, leadership by states within region-building and regional associations as leaders vis-à-vis other regions or powers remains relatively new territory for analysis and consideration, even though the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has attracted both admirers and sceptics. This introductory essay is intended to achieve two principal objectives regarding this symposium addressing Asia-Pacific regional leadership. First, we seek to put the ‘Asia-Pacific’ in historical context and identify some of the forces that have not only shaped but also hindered its realization. Recognizing China's historical role and contemporary rise is important to understand the parameters within which ASEAN and its member states seek to define particular visions of regional identity and enact collective enterprises. The other key background consideration when thinking about contemporary leadership in the Asia-Pacific is that the United States is seemingly in decline. The Asia-Pacific's two most consequential powers – the United States and China – are pervasive considerations for any regional organization that aims to lead and promote cooperation to solve collective action problems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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9. China and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Between Ambiguities and Interests.
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Djallil, Lounnas
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IRANIAN foreign relations ,NUCLEAR weapons ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation ,INTERNATIONAL sanctions ,INTERNATIONAL security ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation in the petroleum industry ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
This article analyses, the complex relationship between Tehran, Beijing and Washington on the Iranian nuclear issue. Indeed, China's policy towards Iran has often been described as ambiguous, in supporting Washington, on the one hand, while protecting Tehran, on the other hand. In this article, we argue that, in fact, Beijing policy vis-a-vis Tehran depends on the state of its relationships with Washington. Indeed, a closer analysis shows that China is using Iran as a bargaining chip with the United States on, among others, two key security issues, i.e., Taiwan and the oil supply. The guarantee of a secured oil supply from the Middle-East in addition to a comprehensive policy of the US with regard to Chinese security interests in Taiwan as well as the use of smart sanctions against Tehran, which would thus take into account, to a certain extent, Beijing economic interests in Iran, are, indeed, the guarantee of Beijing's support to the US policy towards Iran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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10. The United States in a world of rising regional powers: farewell Lilliput, hello Shanghai.
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Hughes, Tim and Bridgman, Martha
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FOREIGN relations of the United States ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,REGIONALISM (International organization) ,GREAT powers (International relations) ,TRANSNATIONALISM - Abstract
Regional powers such as China, India, Russia, and to a lesser degree Brazil and South Africa, now occupy a significant role on the world stage. The United States, while still enjoying superpower status, has taken note. At the same time, the transnational nature of the challenges facing the world will require multilateral and bilateral co-operation perhaps unprecedented in modern history. How will the United States respond to these new requisites within the context of this changed world? While it is too early to assess the Obama administration's foreign policy substantively, it looks to be adopting an approach emphasising the building of consensus and multilateralism in its international engagement. Moreover, there is reason to expect that it will actively seek a more constructive set of relationships with regional powers. United States domestic political constraints may yet hamper Obama in this new approach, as might the type of response the new administration receives from old and new powers to its overtures. Whether the changes are more in tone than substance remains to be seen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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11. Cross-cultural pragmatic differences in US and Chinese press conferences: the case of the North Korea nuclear crisis.
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Xiangying Hang
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PRESS conferences ,NUCLEAR crisis control ,FOREIGN relations of the United States ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,CRISIS management ,MASS media & society ,CROSS-cultural differences ,CHINA. Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Abstract
This study investigated request and refusal strategies in the question-response sequences of interactions in routine press conferences held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the US Department of State on the topic of the North Korea nuclear crisis during a period of 5 months. All utterances by journalists were identified as requests, and instances of spokes- persons' non-compliance with requests were considered to be refusals. Findings demonstrated that: (1) request for specific information was the most frequently adopted strategy in both US and Chinese press conferences, but more clarification and confirmation questions were used in the US data and more questions for comments were found in the Chinese data; (2) in the case of refusals, direct refusals and reasons for refusal were frequent in the US data while avoidance and insufficient answers were prevalent in the Chinese data. The cross-cultural differences in the strategies of requests and refusals are discussed briefly in relation to different ideological and cultural assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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