Товч агуулга:The rise of China has become the most important strategic challenge to the United States in the early 21st century. Buoyed by the world’s second largest economy, an increasingly capable military, and a renewed sense of national pride, China is not only challenging the established global order, but striving to become the hegemon of the western Pacific.
For students of East Asia geopolitics, military officers, or anyone seeking to understand why China is behaving in an increasingly assertive and almost jingoistic manner, this impressive new book describes how history, geography, economics, and politics all intermix to create an extremely precarious situation in the waters of the East and South China Seas, likely flashpoints between China and its regional neighbors.
