Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power

by C.X. George Wei, Yufan Hao, Lowell Dittmer

Book Overview

When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically demonstrated its role as an emerging world power-a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have contributed to its ascendancy as a major player in international affairs.Other nations are reevaluating their economic and political relationships with China as it grows into a legitimate superpower. As a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813192021
• ISBN13: 9780813192024
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher