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CIAO DATE: 01/04
China's Great Power Diplomacy: Implications for the United States
James J. Przystup
The PacNet Newsletter 2003
October 9, 2003
Abstract
During the 1990s, much of U.S. strategic thinking focused on China's emergence as a great power in East Asia—on the process of its becoming a great power. That thinking is now passé. Today, China is East Asia's great power.
That the recent six-party meeting on North Korea's nuclear challenge took place in Beijing is a reflection of China's great power status. But, beyond the Korean Peninsula, this reality is also reflected in China's increasingly active and effective diplomacy toward East Asia. While the United States has been engaged in Iraq, China has been engaged in a diplomatic tour d'force across the region, which bespeaks a growing confidence in its standing and influence. How this will affect historic U.S. interests in East Asia is a matter to which the Bush administration should begin to give careful consideration.
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