China Rising

'China Rising' is an unblinking and sophisticated assessment of the paramount puzzle of our time - how to balance engagement and 'constrainment' of Beijing's emerging Great Power. Diplomats and businessmen, as well as China scholars, will profit from this tersely written yet wide-ranging volume.

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 China's future foreign policy stance may be shaped by its own agendas and constrained through interdependence and interaction with the outside world. It considers the Chinese foreign policy establishment's reactions to interdependence, the roles of the Army in foreign policy, the development of the navy, arms control policy, resource dependency, China's role in international trade and economic organizations, and its role in the region.