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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"China's rise"”.
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China's Rise and the Confucius Institutes: Chinese and American Perspectives
… changes and increasing competition between China and the United States than concerns of preserving academic integrity. Furthermore, it will show that the influence of Hanban and the Confucius Institutes does not significantly threaten academic integrity at those institutions. This thesis …
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The Modernization of the People's Liberation Army: Enabling China's Rise
Since the 1990's, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has made a stunning transformation from a primitive force to a modern, advanced military. China continues to relentlessly focus on modernizing the PLA's force structure and strategic capabilities. The PLA's increasing military strength and …
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The Unipolar Era: Why American Power Persists and China's Rise Is Limited
… that the United States is in decline relative to China, and that much of this decline is the result of globalization and the hegemonic burdens the United States bears to sustain globalization. According to an alternative perspective, however, globalization and hegemony reinforce unipolarity. This …
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The US-Japan Alliance and China's Rise: Alliance Strategy and Reassurance, Deterrence, and Compellence
… reassuring, deterring, and compelling a rising China? This study contends that when the US pursues a distancing strategy toward from Japan, Japan adopts hedging strategies that may undercut US reassurance, deterrence, and compelling China. When the US pursues increased coordination with Japan, …
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Sino-American Relations in the 21st Century: The Political, Social and Economic Realities of China's Rise
… the political, social and economic realities of Chinas rise in an effort to better understand the potential evolution of Sino-American relations. Engagement reasons a prosperous China will become democratic and socially pluralistic, but by observing the development of freedom and rule of law in …
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The Rise of China: Economic Expansion, Military Modification and the Belt and Road Initiative
<p>In order to analyze China’s rise in power, we have to examine how China has achieved this growth. We need to observe their domestic reforms, international initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and strategic military advancements. This thesis focuses on China’s economic …
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China's policy towards US adversaries
… government is trying to reassure the US that China's rise is not threatening, why does China diplomatically support adversaries of the US such as Iran, Sudan, Libya, and Syria? This thesis shows that soft balancing against the US in concert with Russia best explains China's foreign policy …
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Cyber Warfare Strategy in the People's Republic of China
China is rapidly ascending in the international community. Aspects of China's rise in power are being examined by many including academics and government personnel to understand China's future role in the international system. China will undoubtedly use numerous instruments of state power to …
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The Future of Japan in the Asian Security Balance
… Japan are changing too. Nationalism is on the rise and with it, support for a more active and capable Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF). Domestically, any increase in capability of the JSDF puts strain on Japan's "Peace Constitution,” bringing it closer to total revision. Japan's principle …
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Chinese 'loan-for-oil' deals in Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador : local concerns and perceptions
China's international behaviour has been the subject of scholarly attention in the past decade. The implementation of the 'going out' strategy of international relations in Latin American countries has been inserted in the mainstream debate about China's rise. The Chinese national oil companies' …
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A quarter century of creative chaos: Xinhua News Agency 1980-2005
Chinese media in the context of China's rise have puzzled many scholars who used to understand media and communications phenomena by employing the theories generated from a few affluent Western democracies, notably the US. As a result, a complex but more accurate picture has been ignored. Under …
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The taming of the red dragon: The militarized worldview and China's use of force, 1949-2010
This dissertation explores the impact of China’s integration into the international society upon its propensity to use force in interstate disputes. Drawing on various insights from international relations theory, I argue that China’s proverbial violence proneness—that is, its propensity to use …
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Converging Interests, Differing Motives: Understanding and Explaining China-Turkey Relations, 2002-2018
Since the early 2000s, China and Turkey have experienced an invigoration of a relationship that has traditionally been characterised by distance, disinterest and a divergence of policy and ideological orientations. This new relationship between the two is characterised by a number of formal policy …
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Indonesia’s great power and superpower environment in the post Cold War era: A study of Indonesia’s search for a dynamic regional equilibrium
… The concept was developed in the light of the rise of China, the US’ reengagement and Japan’s transformation, and is a response to the great power and superpower interactions in the region. This study is thus timely, significant and relevant as well as important in contemporary Indonesia. …