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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788554303321

Titolo

Looking north, looking south [[electronic resource] ] : China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific / / editor, Anne-Marie Brady

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2010

ISBN

1-283-14445-X

9786613144454

981-4304-39-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Series on contemporary China, , 1793-0847 ; ; v. 26

Altri autori (Persone)

BradyAnne-Marie <1966->

Disciplina

327.51

Soggetti

China Relations Oceania

Oceania Relations China

China Foreign relations Taiwan

Taiwan Foreign relations China

Taiwan Relations Oceania

Oceania Relations Taiwan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The South Pacific : China's new frontier / Bertil Lintner -- The software of China-Pacific Island relations / Ron Crocombe -- Sino-Pacifica : extra-territorial influence and the overseas Chinese / James Jiann Hua To -- China : stumbling through the Pacific? / Fergus Hanson -- The security implications of cross-strait competition in the South Pacific from a Taiwanese perspective / Cheng-yi Lin -- Rising Chinese influence in the South Pacific : Beijing's island fever / Tamara Renee Shie -- Big trouble in little Chinatown : Australia, Taiwan and the April 2006 post-election riot in Solomon Islands / Joel Atkinson -- New Zealand, the Pacific and China : the challenges ahead / Anne-Marie Brady and John Henderson -- Chinese foreign policy in Asia : implications for the South Pacific / Phillip C. Saunders -- The South Pacific in China's grand strategy / Jian Yang.

Sommario/riassunto

""Looking North, Looking South"" brings together the works of leading China, Taiwan, and Pacific politics specialists analysing a topic of growing importance: China and Taiwan's ever-growing involvement in



the South Pacific. There is no doubt that China is on the rise in Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbeans, and even the Antarctica and the Arctic, this rise can be partly attributed to China's activities in the South Pacific. This book will pinpoint China's involvement in the South Pacific within the context of China's wider foreign policy and the challenges it poses to the traditional d