A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
more independent role. The collapse of the Soviet Union, followed by the decline of Russian power, has now left the United State ...
Not only the United States stands in the way of attainment of China’s strategic goals: the country also faces enormous internal ...
In following this strategy, China remains determined to defend what it perceives as its long-term national interests, in particu ...
in Southeast Asia. Yet if the US were to try to contain China, it would need the support of at least some Southeast Asian states ...
consideration for the interests of other states. Unification and sover- eignty over all territory claimed as Chinese would be pr ...
the US would abandon its interests in Southeast Asia entirely, just that the US, as a global power, might be prepared to make wa ...
constructed—and then Southeast Asian nations proved remarkably reluctant to join. It is significant that the ASEAN states are to ...
History indicates that China is unlikely to invade mainland Southeast Asian countries that accord China de facto great power sta ...
throughout the archipelago over which inland kingdoms such as Mataram exercised, at best, limited control. Trade in the hands of ...
The Philippines also lacks a deep historical relationship with China, though its Chinese community is better assimilated than in ...
China and ASEAN The division that exists between continental and maritime states, in the place China occupies in their internati ...
line state is transferred to an expanded ASEAN in conflict with China, this would presumably commit ASEAN to the defence of Viet ...
ASEAN state wants to be drawn into a US confrontation with China (for example, over Taiwan), so all reject any formal alliance. ...
augmenting Chinese influence in Southeast Asia that possession of the Spratlys would offer. Only a negotiated settlement that me ...
states will together prefer accommodation with China, and in doing so, will seek appropriate ways to evolve both their bilateral ...
Future directions This leaves open the fate of the islands of the South China Sea. An assertive China would certainly want contr ...
Notes Chapter 1 Introduction There is considerable debate about how relations between states should be understood. For a discus ...
example, Stephen Krasner, ed., International Regimes, Cornell Uni- versity Press, Ithaca, NY, 1983; Volker Ritter, ed., Regime T ...
Chapter 3 Early relations Claude Jacques, ‘ “Funan”, “Zhenla”: The reality concealed by these Chinese views of Indochina’ in Ea ...
Chapter 4 Mongol expansionism Wang Gungwu, ‘Song–Yuan–Ming relations with Southeast Asia: some comparisons’ in Wang Gungwu, Chi ...
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