LEADER 04649nam 22006973 450 001 9910440650203321 005 20231110225606.0 010 $a1-76046-417-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011785037 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6519027 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6519027 035 $a(OCoLC)1238049886 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64026 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011785037 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe China Alternative $eChanging Regional Order in the Pacific Islands 210 $aCanberra$cANU Press$d2021 210 1$aCanberra :$cANU Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (520 pages) 225 1 $aPacific 327 $aIntro -- Opening Remarks -- Introduction: The Return of Great Power Competition -- 1. Mapping the Blue Pacific in a Changing Regional Order -- 2. A New Cold War? Implications for the Pacific Islands -- 3. Australia's Response to China in the Pacific: From Alert to Alarmed -- 4. China's Impact on New Zealand Foreign Policy in the Pacific: The Pacific Reset -- 5. Associations Freely Chosen: New Geopolitics in the North Pacific -- 6. Stable, Democratic and Western: China and French Colonialism in the Pacific -- 7. A Reevaluation of China's Engagement in the Pacific Islands -- 8. Domestic Political Reforms and China's Diplomacy in the Pacific: The Case of Foreign Aid -- 9. A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands -- 10. Solomon Islands' Foreign Policy Dilemma and the Switch from Taiwan to China -- 11. 'We're Not Indigenous. We're Just, We're Us': Pacific Perspectives on Taiwan's Austronesian Diplomacy -- 12. Building a Strategic Partnership: Fiji-China Relations Since 2008 -- 13. Bridging the Belt and Road Initiative in Papua New Guinea -- 14. The Shifting Fate of China's Pacific Diaspora -- 15. On-the-Ground Tensions with Chinese Traders in Papua New Guinea -- 16. Overseas Chinese, Soft Power and China's People-to-People Diplomacy in Timor-Leste -- Contributors. 330 $aIn this collection, 17 leading scholars based in Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship between China and the Pacific Islands and explore the strategic, economic and diplomatic implications for regional actors. The China Alternative includes chapters on growing great power competition in the region, as well as the response to China's rise by the US and its Western allies and the island countries themselves. Other chapters examine key dimensions of China?s Pacific engagement, including Beijing?s programs of aid and diplomacy, as well as the massive investments of the Belt and Road Initiative. The impact of China?s rivalry for recognition with Taiwan is examined, and several chapters analyse Chinese communities in the Pacific, and their relationships with local societies. The China Alternative provides ample material for informed judgements about the ability of island leaders to maintain their agency in the changing regional order, as well as other issues of significance to the peoples of the region. 410 0$aPacific 517 $aChina Alternative 606 $aSocial issues & processes$2bicssc 606 $aPolitics & government$2bicssc 606 $aInternational relations$2bicssc 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$y21st century 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$zPacific Area 607 $aPacific Area$xForeign relations$zChina 607 $aPacific Area$xStrategic aspects 607 $aPacific Area$xForeign relations$y21st century 607 $aChina$xForeign economic relations$zPacific Area 607 $aPacific Area$xForeign economic relations$zChina 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y21st century 607 $aPacific Area$xPolitics and government$y21st century 607 $aChina$2fast 607 $aPacific Area$2fast 610 $aChina 610 $aPacific Islands 610 $aTaiwan 610 $acold war 615 7$aSocial issues & processes 615 7$aPolitics & government 615 7$aInternational relations 676 $a327.51 700 $aSmith$b Graeme$0851898 701 $aWesley-Smith$b Terence$0851899 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910440650203321 996 $aThe China Alternative$91902187 997 $aUNINA