China’s Power and Asian Security

Mingjiang Li is Associate Professor and Coordinator of China Program in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

This book maps the growth of China's political, economic, and military capabilities and its impact on the security order in Asia over the coming decades. While updating the emerging power dimensions and prevailing discourse, it provides a nuanced analysis of whether the growth of Chinese power is resulting in Beijing becoming more assertive, or even aggressive, in its behavior and pursuit of national interests, of how the key Asian countries are perceiving and reacting to the growth of China's power and how US rebalancing would play out in the context of Beijing's political, economic, and military power.

Part One 1. Growth of China's Power: Capabilities, Perceptions, and Practice (Introduction) 2. The Rise of China and the Emerging Order in Asia China's Military Buildup: Regional Repercussions Part Two 4. China's Assessments of U.S. Rebalancing/Pivot to Asia 5. China's Rising Power, the U.S. Rebalance to Asia, and Implications for U.S.-China relations Part Three 6. Peripheral South Asian Response to the Growth of Chinese Power: A Study in Dichotomous Continuity 7. India's Perceptions and Responses to the Growth of Chinese Power 8. Canberra's Beijing balance: Australian Perceptions of and Responses to Chinese Power 9. Facing the Challenges: ASEAN's Institutional Responses to China's Rise10. Evaluating Southeast Asian Responses to China's Rise: The Vital Context of Managing Great Power Resurgence11. China-Central Asia: A New Economic, Security, and Logistic Network 12. China's challenges in accommodating both Koreas 13. The Rise of China and Japan's Foreign Policy Reorientation 14. The Changing Security Dynamics in Northeast Asia and the US Alliances with Japan and South Korea: Toward Synchronisation