Consequences of China's Economic Growth for Asia-Pacific Security

1 Examples are Winston Lord, `China and America: Beyond the Big Chill', Foreign Affairs, vol. 68, no. 4 (Fall 1989), p. 21; and Frank Gibney, Japan: The Fragile Superpower (New York: Meridian, 1985), p. 372.

2 Kung Yao-wen, `United States Must Bear the Blame for the Deterioration in Sino-US Relations', Ta Kung Pao, 20 September 1992, p. 2.

3 Dong Fang-tie, `A Short-Sighted Move', Jiefangjun Bao, 22 November 1987, in Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: China, 2 December 1987, p. 6.

4 James C. F. Wang, Contemporary Chinese Politics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992), pp. 356-357.

5 `Foreign Minister Qian Meets the Press', Beijing Review, 9-15 April 1990, p. 15; Beijing Review, 11-17 September 1989, p. 13; and 15-21 January 1990, p. 14; in Wang, Contemporary Chinese Politics, p. 357.

6 Typifying this view is Seizaburo Sato, `The International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Region and [the] Role of Japan', Korean Journal of International Studies, vol. 21, no. 3 (Autumn 1990), p. 339.

7 Michel Oksenberg, `The China Problem', Foreign Affairs, vol. 70, no. 3 (Summer 1991), p. 10.

8 Zou Yuqi and Zeng Guangjun, respectively, writing in separate issues of Jiefangjun Bao, quoted in Paul H. B. Godwin, `Soldiers and Statesmen: Chinese Defense and Foreign Policies in the 1990s', in Samuel S. Kim, ed., China and the World (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1989), p. 192.

9 Report by the South China Morning Post, reprinted as `China Prepared to Use Force, Says Yang in Tough Speech', Straits Times, 15 December 1992, p. 1.

10 David Shambaugh in International Herald Tribune, reprinted as `China's Military Buildup Cause for Concern Among Asian States', Straits Times, 16 January 1993, p. 15; Nicholas Kristof in New York Times, reprinted as `China Embarks on Major Military Buildup', Straits Times, 13 January 1993, p. 13.

11 The quotations are from a government-controlled Hanoi radio broadcast. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, East Asia, 28 March 1988, p. 50.

12 `Soon, a Chinese Aircraft Carrier?', Asiaweek, 13 November 1992, p. 31.

13 Paul Jacob, `China “must allay fears about its regional motives” ', The Straits Times, 14 November 1992, p. 7.

14 B. A. Hamzah, `China's Strategy', Far Eastern Economic Review, 13 August 1992, p. 22.

15 Andrew B. Brick, `America-China Policy: Maintaining Constructive Engagement', Heritage Foundation, Asian Studies Center Backgrounder, no. 118, 15 November 1991, p. 2.

16 Gary Klintworth, Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter, vol. 19, no. 2/3 (August-September 1992), p. 26.

17 Quoted in Allen S. Whiting, `Chinese Foreign Policy Options in the 1990s', in Samuel S. Kim, ed., China and the World (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989) p. 299.

18 Hamilton Huang, `Mainland scare tactics will not win any friends', Free China Journal, 6 November 1992, p. 6.

19 Takayoshi Sogo, `Tokyo Wary of China's Military Might', Asian Defence Journal, November 1992, p. 102.

20 Yamauchi Toshihiro, `Gunning for Japan's Peace Constitution', Japan Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2 (April-June 1992), p. 165.

21 Gaston J. Sigur, `China Policy Today', Department of State Bulletin, vol. 87, no. 2119 (February 1987), pp. 49-50.

22 Tommy Koh, `An Asian Agenda for President Clinton', Asian Wall Street Journal, 5 November 1992, p. 10.

23 See, for example, Michael Doyle, `Liberalism and World Politics', American Political Science Review, vol. 80, no. 4 (December 1986), p. 1156.

24 Bruce Cumings, The Two Koreas (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1984), p. 45.

25 An example is David Shambaugh, `China in 1991', Asian Survey, vol. 32, no. 1 (January 1992), p. 31.

26 The deductive and empirical basis of the peaceful democracies argument is further challenged by John J. Mearsheimer, `Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War', International Security, vol. 15, no. 1 (Summer 1990), pp. 49-51.

27 Quoted in Roger W. Sullivan, `Discarding the China Card', Foreign Policy, no. 86 (Spring 1992), p. 21.