Interpreting China's Grand Strategy

Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Author: Michael D. Swaine
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2000-03-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0833048309

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China's continuing rapid economic growth and expanding involvement in global affairs pose major implications for the power structure of the international system. To more accurately and fully assess the significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community, it is necessary to gain a more complete understanding of Chinese security thought and behavior. This study addresses such questions as: What are China's most fundamental national security objectives? How has the Chinese state employed force and diplomacy in the pursuit of these objectives over the centuries? What security strategy does China pursue today and how will it evolve in the future? The study asserts that Chinese history, the behavior of earlier rising powers, and the basic structure and logic of international power relations all suggest that, although a strong China will likely become more assertive globally, this possibility is unlikely to emerge before 2015-2020 at the earliest. To handle this situation, the study argues that the United States should adopt a policy of realistic engagement with China that combines efforts to pursue cooperation whenever possible; to prevent, if necessary, the acquisition by China of capabilities that would threaten America's core national security interests; and to remain prepared to cope with the consequences of a more assertive China.

Interpreting China's Grand Strategy

Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Author:
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Total Pages: 3
Release: 2000
Genre: China
ISBN:

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RAND highlights the full text of an article entitled "Interpreting China's Grand Strategy," published in 2000. The article discusses China's security objectives, how China has pursued these objectives, China's strategy to protect itself from external threats, and the determination of the best U.S. policy toward China.

China’s Grand Strategy

China’s Grand Strategy
Author: Andrew Scobell
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-07-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1977404200

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To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.

China's Grand Strategy

China's Grand Strategy
Author: Honghua Men
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-04-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811542570

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This book aims to build the ideal model of China's grand strategy framework, which is based on three key variables: national power, strategic concept and international institution. Taking the rise of China as an opportunity, this book adopts the assessment of national strategic resources as the beginning, focuses on the evaluation of strategic capability, the choice of strategic orientation, the establishment of strategic objectives, the planning of strategic content and the implementation of strategic means. Further, following this main line, this book establishes a China's grand strategy framework based on active participation and integration-transformation-shaping process. This book emphasizes that to achieve the goals of China's grand strategy; China should uphold this strategic attitude: It should not be seduced by praise and should not be made aggressive by criticism. It should learn to be glorious but remain humble, maintain a wealthy, influential but modest position by restraint. This book can be regarded as the essence of the author's 20 years long-term focus and research on the China's grand strategy. The author's postdoctoral tutor Professor Hu Angang’s comment of this book can hit the nail on the head: "This book is a pioneering theoretical study of China's great strategic research and makes a significant contribution to this research field. The basic arguments of this book have been submitted through various approaches to decision-making references or published in academic papers, and have received numerous positive responses and resonance. In my opinion, the basic ideas and important findings of this book will provide imperative reference to long-term strategy decision-making process. In addition, the fundamental theory and analysis method of the book will have an important influence in both domestic and international academic field."

Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China

Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Author: Robert D. Blackwill
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0876096461

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Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis argue that the United States has responded inadequately to the rise of Chinese power. This Council Special Report recommends placing less strategic emphasis on the goal of integrating China into the international system and more on balancing China's rise.

Rising to the Challenge

Rising to the Challenge
Author: Avery Goldstein
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789971694388

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Chinas increasing economic and military capabilities have attracted much attention in recent years. How should the world, especially the United States, respond to this emerging great power? A sensible response requires not only figuring out the speed and extent of Chinas rise, but also answering a question that has received much less attention: What is Chinas grand strategy?

China's Ascent

China's Ascent
Author: Robert S. Ross
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0801456983

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Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China's increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China's rise, including its economic might and the continuing modernization of its military. This book offers multiple analytical perspectives—constructivist, liberal, neorealist—on the significance of the many dimensions of China's regional and global influence. Distinguished authors consider the likelihood of conflict and peaceful accommodation as China grows ever stronger. They look at the changing position of China "from the inside": How do Chinese policymakers evaluate the contemporary international order and what are the regional and global implications of that worldview? The authors also address the implications of China's increasing power for Chinese policymaking and for the foreign policies of Korea, Japan, and the United States.

Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power

Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power
Author: Thomas M. Kane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136713026

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This challenging new book argues that the People's Republic of China is pursuing a long-term strategy to extend its national power by sea.

China's Grand Strategy

China's Grand Strategy
Author: Jeremiah J. Burgess
Publisher:
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019
Genre: China
ISBN:

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The 2017 National Security Strategy declares that the United States and China are engaged in a global competition. The NSS calls for an increase in US competitive actions to address China’s growing global power. In order to design a campaign to address China’s global power, it is necessary to understand China’s grand strategic end-state. This understanding will allow the US to identify the ways and means required to address the Chinese threat. Arguably the only individuals who truly know China’s grand strategic end-state are the elite members of the Chinese Communist Party, however a variety of Chinese experts and non-experts have tried. This paper argues that there is a spectrum of possible grand strategic end-states that China is pursuing. On one end of the spectrum is a China that desires to co-exist in the current international system without drastically modifying the global order. On the other end of the spectrum is a Chinese desire to replace the US as the global hegemon, becoming the next sole superpower. Through the examination of China’s use of the DIME instruments of power this paper attempts to understand China’s grand strategic end-state. The paper contends that based on China’s current activities and leadership statements, China’s grand strategic end-state includes continued status as a global economic power, a desire to be the dominate political and military power in Asia and a desire to be an equal great power in a multi-lateral world order. The identification of this end-state should be used to help design the US response to China, employing both competitive and cooperative means and ways to achieve the US NSS.

Cultural Realism

Cultural Realism
Author: Alastair Iain Johnston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691213143

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Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? The focus of his study is the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). First Johnston examines ancient military texts as sources of Chinese strategic culture, using cognitive mapping, symbolic analysis and congruence tests to determine whether there is a consistent grand strategic preference ranking across texts that constitutes a single strategic culture. Then he applies similar techniques to determine the effect of the strategic culture on the strategic preferences of the Ming decision makers. Finally, he assesses the effect of these preferences on Ming policies towards the Mongol "threat." The findings of this book challenge dominant interpretations of traditional Chinese strategic thought. They suggest also that the roots of realpolitik are ideational and not predominantly structural. The results lead to the surprising conclusion that there may be, in fact, fewer cross-national differences in strategic culture than proponents of the "strategic culture" approach think.