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ASEAN Foreign Minister
Asian Collective Security
Asian Collective Security System
Author_Edwin W. Martin
Barisan Socialis
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China's domestic policies
Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Government
Collective Security Proposal
Economic Assistance
Energy Resources
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foreign policy analysis
Fourth National People's Congress
Military Expenditures
National People's Congress
nationalism in Indochina
non-Communist Southeast Asian Country
Overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission
Overseas Chinese Commission
overseas Chinese diaspora
Peking-oriented insurgency
PKI Leader
power balance theory
PRC's Ability
PRC's Claim
PRC's Defense
Premier Chou En-lai
regional security studies
Sino Southeast Asian Relations
Sino Soviet Hostility
Sino-Soviet competition
Sino-Soviet relations
Southeast Asian countries
Southeast Asian geopolitical dynamics
Southeast Asian Governments
World's Largest Oil Producers
Product details
- ISBN 9780367288020
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the end of the war in Vietnam and the withdrawal of the American presence there, a marked realignment of power has taken place in Southeast Asia. The old rivalry between China and the United States has become a relationship of cautious rapprochement, while Sino-Soviet competition has been intensified by China's fear that the USSR will move to fill the power vacuum created by the U.S. departure. The United States no longer perceives a friendly Sino-Southeast Asian relationship to be as much of a danger to its security interests as it once did, but how that relationship develops remains of considerable importance to this country. In this book, Edwin Martin examines some of the principal factors in China's current relations with the Southeast Asian countries— China's domestic policies, Peking-oriented insurgency in Southeast Asian countries, the Overseas Chinese, trade considerations, the policies of third powers—and concludes that the newly emergent nationalism in Southeast Asia,coupled with Sino-Soviet rivalry, indeed diminishes the threat posed by a Communist Indochina and calls for a U.S. policy of encouraging stable relations in the area, both among the countries themselves and between them and the PRC. He asserts that a four-way balance of power— involving the United States, the USSR, the PRC, and Japan—will prevent a power vacuum in the area and will allow the Southeast Asian countries to develop their own strengths, both political and economic. It is thus to the advantage of the United States to encourage all steps toward regional cooperation; U.S. policy, Professor Martin concludes, should neither abandon Southeast Asia, nor attempt to dictate to it.
Edwin W. Martin
