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Beijing's Power and China's Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia
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Description: China shares borders with 20 neighboring countries--more than any other country in the world. Each of the neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, that includes territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims.
This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to examine each of China's twenty land or sea borders. Each chapter details the history and status of boundary setting and the ongoing management of transnational interactions--trade, resource exploitation, fishing rights, and population movements.
Country coverage includes Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Indonesia, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.
An introduction and a concluding chapter draw out the implications of the book's twenty case studies and identify areas where border disputes could flare up in the context of China's emergence as a regional hegemon and as a sea power.
Selected Contents:
Acknowledgments
Series Editor's Preface, Stephen Kotkin
Abbreviations
List of Maps
Introduction, Bruce A. Elleman and Clive Schofield
1. Sino-Afghani Border Relations, Artemy M. Kalinovsky
2. Bhutan-China Border Disputes and Their Geopolitical Implications, Paul J. Smith
3. Brunei's Contested Sea Border with China, Ian Storey
4. India's Intractable Border Dispute with China, Brahma Chellaney
5. Indonesia's "Invisible" Border with China, I Made Andi Arsana and Clive Schofield
6. Sino-Japanese Territorial and Maritime Disputes, June Teufel Dreyer
7. Kazakhstan's Border Relations with China, Stephen Blank
8. Sino-Korean Border Relations, Charles K. Armstrong
9. Kyrgyzstan: China's Regional Playground? Erica Marat
10. The China-Laos Boundary: Lan Xang Meets the Middle Kingdom, Ian Townsend-Gault
11. Malaysia and China: Economic Growth Overshadows Sovereignty Dispute, Vivian Louis Forbes
12. Sino-Mongol Border: From Conflict to Precarious Resolution, Morris Rossabi
13. The Sino-Myanmar Border, Brendan Whyte
14. China-Nepal Border: Potential Hot Spot? Chitra K. Tiwari
15. The Sino-Pakistan Border: Stability in an Unstable Region, Christopher Tang
16. Philippine-China Border Relations: Cautious Engagement Amidst Tensions, Lowell Bautista and Clive Schofield
17. Sino-Russian Border Resolution, Mark Galeotti
18. PRC Disputes with the ROC on Taiwan, Bruce A. Elleman
19. Tajikistan-China Border Normalization, Gregory Gleason
20. Sino-Vietnamese Border Disputes, Ramses Amer
Conclusions, Bruce A. Elleman, Stephen Kotkin, and Clive Schofield
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Comment(s): "All scholars of China's boundaries in Asia and adjoining seas will welcome and benefit from the new publication Beijing's Power and China's Borders. All the authors are well-qualified and the text is supported by 29 figures and a well-constructed index." -- Victor Prescott, Emeritus, University of Melbourne
    
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