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Xi Jinping on the Global Stage: Chinese Foreign Policy Under a Powerful but Exposed Leader
In Xi Jinping on the Global Stage: Chinese Foreign Policy Under a Powerful but Exposed Leader, Robert D. Blackwill and Kurt M. Campbell argue that Chinese President Xi Jinping has amassed unprecedented power and conducted an assertive foreign policy meant to challenge U.S. interests in Asia and ultimately displace the United States as the dominant power in the region. The report proposes a new U.S. grand strategy toward China that recognizes Asia's growing importance to American interests and maintains U.S. primacy in the region.
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66 pages, Paperback
Published February 25, 2016
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Robert D. Blackwill
21 books14 followersRobert D. Blackwill is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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August 12, 2016
Council on Foreign Relations has provided a comprehensive overview of Xi Jinping's foreign policy to date, and a prediction of what we can possibly expect.
The title rests on two central theses, that Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and has amassed enormous authority in his person, but he is potentially exposed due to China's economic slowdown. Due to possible domestic discontent, this could, or likely will, result in an increased stoking of nationalism. Therefore, assertive policies toward the East and South China Seas are likely to continue, and possibly become more aggressive.
The authors contend that a nationalistic foreign policy is more likely to be felt by the neighbours, rather than the West, although stoking anti Western semtiment remains a (remote) possibility.
The report provides a good overview of Xi Jinping's foreign policy to date, although more attention could have been given to the economic dimensions, but some insight into the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and it's more cordial relations with India are given.
A decent primer and overview of Xi Jinping's foreign policy to date, but best read in addition to more in depth studies on Chinese foreign policy.
The title rests on two central theses, that Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and has amassed enormous authority in his person, but he is potentially exposed due to China's economic slowdown. Due to possible domestic discontent, this could, or likely will, result in an increased stoking of nationalism. Therefore, assertive policies toward the East and South China Seas are likely to continue, and possibly become more aggressive.
The authors contend that a nationalistic foreign policy is more likely to be felt by the neighbours, rather than the West, although stoking anti Western semtiment remains a (remote) possibility.
The report provides a good overview of Xi Jinping's foreign policy to date, although more attention could have been given to the economic dimensions, but some insight into the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and it's more cordial relations with India are given.
A decent primer and overview of Xi Jinping's foreign policy to date, but best read in addition to more in depth studies on Chinese foreign policy.
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