From 'Japan Problem' to 'China Threat'?
From 'Japan Problem' to 'China Threat'?

Author: Nicola Nymalm

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3030449513

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This book has four main objectives: to bring the thus far almost entirely neglected historical case of ‘the rise of Japan’ into the literature on power shifts in general and ‘the rise of China’ in particular; to propose a discourse-based conceptualization of identity for the study of economic policy that engages theoretical and methodological debates on how to overcome the dichotomy between ‘ideational’ (identity) and ‘material’ (economic) factors; to address the tendency to focus on the ‘radical Other’ in poststructuralist IR scholarship, by highlighting how heterogeneity disturbs exclusive and binary articulations of identity and difference; and to propose a method for putting political discourse theory (PDT) into practice in empirical research by drawing on rhetorical political analysis (RPA). US congressional debates on economic policy on Japan and China in 1985–2008 are analysed as examples of official US elite public discourse. The book shows that the ‘new era’ in US-Chinese relations that scholars and policymakers have been announcing since the beginning of the Trump presidency was long in the making, as it rests on longstanding discourses on the USA’s main economic competitor.

The China Threat
The China Threat

Author: Bill Gertz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-02-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1621571157

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The devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and America's first domestic bio-terrorism mail attacks have shifted America's attention and resources to the immediate threat of international terrorism. But we shouldn't be fooled. Since the publication of the hardcover edition of The China Threat in November of 2000, one thing remains very much the same: the People's Republic of China is the most serious long-term national security challenge to the United States. In fact, after the events of September 11, the China threat should seem all the more real, for Communist China is one of the most important backers of states that support international terrorism. —From the new introduction by the author

The China Threat
The China Threat

Author: Ian Storey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1135786461

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This book examines perceptions of the 'China Threat', and governments' policies in response to this perceived threat in a wide range of countries, including the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, and countries in the Middle East. Perceptions of the Chinese themselves are also looked at, the current security concerns and policies of each country are examined in detail, especially the policy of engagement, and future prospects for relations with China are assessed.

China Threat: Perceptions Myths
China Threat: Perceptions Myths

Author: Herbert Yee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1136004866

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Since the end of the Cold War, one of the most significant debates in international relations has been the question of whether the rise of China as a major economic, political and military power will be a force for stability or instability in the international system and the East Asian region. Forceful arguments have been put forward on both sides. This book examines perceptions of the 'China Threat', and governments' policies in response to the perceived threat in a wide range of countries, including the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, South Asia, South-East Asia and the Middle East, as well as the perceptions of the Chinese themselves. For each country current security concerns and policies, especially the policy of engagement, are examined in detail, and future prospects for relations with China are assessed. As the Bush administration in Washington increasingly focuses on China as a 'strategic competitor' and Sino-US relations becomes increasingly tense, the 'China Threat' issue has come to dominate the security agenda in the Asia-Pacific region, and now poses the biggest foreign policy challenge of the 21st century.

The Rise of "china Threat" Arguments
The Rise of

Author: Chikako Ueki

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13:

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(cont.) The main difference between the United States and Japan was that whereas in the U.S. case threat perception was shaped by a primacy strategy, Japan had to face a preponderant United States and a rising China at the same time. "China threat" arguments were suppressed in Japan while Japan was unsure about its relationship with the United States. The consolidation of Japan's relationship with the United States led to a surge of"China threat" arguments in Japan in 2000. The interests of domestic organizations were not the major cause of the initial rise of "China threat" arguments. The relevant organizations, including the military services, made "China threat" arguments only after they gained currency within the society. The study also finds that China's undemocratic nature did not independently cause the perception of threat.