50 Shades of China
50 Shades of China

Author: Jiu Ling

Publisher: Global Citizen EpubVerlag

Published: 2015-02-03

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 3956940040

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50 Shades of China This bundle features the two titles CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY and CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY and includes a bundle-exclusive additional chapter. Combine the BEST and the MOST to discover Chinese etiquette in all its 50 Shades! CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette This is Cultureshocking News: China is the BEST behaved country in the world. How is it possible? Why is it BEST? And how we gonna deal with that? The intercultural encounter with China is a challenge. Prime your pump in your business, travel, study or politics mission. This book is for the noob all the way to the expert, offering enlightening insight on Chinese etiquette ("The China Sparkle", "China: A Maze")hands-on examples ("The story of the wedding couple's gift", "The story of the couple who got drunk")and expert solutions ("Pro Mode", "Pro Mode 2") Learn why it's best to know that you don't know... and still go pro. Boost your Three T's as in Talks, Trust & Timing with a focus chapter on communication. This guide to Chinese etiquette gives you all the essentials from a fresh and entertaining perspective. Check out the preview for more! (The preview of the stand-alone version offers an even closer glimpse of the content; also available in this store) CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette A comedy complement to the unconventional CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY, this guide to Chinese etiquette goes pop and punk with stereotypes, images and the fear of using them both. It offers you concrete scenarios in colorful anecdotes. Check out the preview for more! (The preview of the stand-alone version offers an even closer glimpse of the content; also available in this store) Other titles by Jiu Ling @ GooglePlay CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRYCHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY

Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States
Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States

Author: Jeffrey Reeves

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1317486501

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This book examines China’s relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence. China’s foreign policy concepts toward its weak neighbouring states, such as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy, are premised on the assumption that economic exchange and a commitment to common development are the most effective means of ensuring stability on its borders. This book, however, argues that China’s overreliance on economic exchange as the basis for its bilateral relations contains inherently self-defeating qualities that have contributed and can further contribute to instability and insecurity within China’s periphery. Unequal economic exchange between China and its weak neighbours results in Chinese influence over the state’s domestic institutions, what this book refers to as ‘structural power’. Chinese structural power, in turn, can undermine the state’s development, contribute to social unrest, and exacerbate existing state/society tensions—what this book refers to as ‘structural violence’. For China, such outcomes lead to instability within its peripheral environment and raise its vulnerability to security threats stemming from nationalism, separatism, terrorism, transnational organised crime, and drug trafficking, among others. This book explores the causality between China’s economically-reliant foreign policy and insecurity in its weak peripheral states and considers the implications for China’s security environment and foreign policy. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, Asian security studies, international political economy and IR in general.

Where Great Powers Meet
Where Great Powers Meet

Author: David Shambaugh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190914998

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After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the foreseeable future. In the last two decades, however, the re-emergence of China as a major great power has called into question the geopolitical future of the region and raised the specter of renewed great power competition. As the eminent China scholar David Shambaugh explains in Where Great Powers Meet, the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant area--and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global "power transition" occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their competition. The United States continues to possess a depth and breadth of security ties, soft power, and direct investment across the region that empirically outweigh China's. For its part, China has more diplomatic influence, much greater trade, and geographic proximity. In assessing the likelihood of a regional power transition, Shambaugh examines how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its member states maneuver and the degree to which they align with one or the other power.

China and International Security
China and International Security

Author: Donovan C. Chau

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 835

ISBN-13:

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The first work of its kind, this strategic assessment of China's national security reveals the nation's intentions, capabilities, and threats—and their implications for the United States and the world. As China continues to develop the strategic means to advance its national interests in Asia and around the world, assessing its role in international security is the greatest strategic challenge now faced by the United States and its allies. China and International Security facilitates this critically important understanding, analyzing topics that range from strategic geography and orientation to gender ratios. Using detailed case studies and sharing expert insights, the work provides historical, internal, and contemporary analyses that reveal the nature and character of China's national security. This three-volume set is written for scholars, students, and policymakers. The volumes offer in-depth articles penned by intelligence professionals and journalists, as well as entries by scholars in fields as diverse as international politics, history, and strategic studies. While other works may attempt to predict the future of China's rise or the nature of China's future bilateral relationships, none so thoroughly examines the totality of China's domestic, regional, and international security—and their implications.