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China's Asian Dream: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road

Tom Miller

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'China', Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken.

From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to presenting itself as a world leader in the fight against climate change, a newly confident China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. With the Belt and Road initiative, billed as a new Silk Road for the 21st Century, China is set to extend its influence throughout Eurasia and across the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. But with the Chinese and US militaries also vying over the Pacific, does this newfound confidence put China on a collision course with the US?

Combining a geopolitical overview with on-the-ground reportage from a dozen countries, this new edition of China's Asian Dream engages with the most recent developments in the ongoing story of China's ascendency, and offers new insights into what the rise of China means not only for Asia, but for the world.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Zed Books
  • Publish Date: Sep 15th, 2019
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 1.10in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781786997418
  • Categories: • World - Asian• International Relations - General• Security (National & International)

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About the Author

Miller, Tom: - Tom Miller is managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, published by research company GK Dragonomics, and a former Beijing correspondent of the South China Morning Post. Tom has a degree in English from Oxford and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. After teaching for a year at Shanghai University, he studied Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University and at China's Central Academy of Drama. Resident in China for more than a decade, Tom lives in Beijing with his wife and two children. This is his first book.

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Praise for this book

"[A] vivid and useful guide to China's unfolding strategy and its economic and diplomatic ramifications." --ChinaDialogue

"A lively work ... particularly strong on the role that Chinese-backed infrastructure development will play in fulfilling [China's regional] ambition." --Financial Times

"A terrific combination of data and pavement-pounding local investigation, with discussions between academics, market traders and officials from Laos to India." --Hong Kong Review of Books

"Superbly organised ... Miller deftly combines the plethora of data points and statistics with vivid local colour." --South China Morning Post

"Understanding the philosophy behind China's national aspirations will be a defining task of 21st-century diplomacy. In that vein, China's Asian Dream will prove essential reading." --Wall Street Journal

"Excellent ... Tom Miller has voyaged around China's periphery [and] his long experience of analysing the Chinese economy enables him to puncture a few over-inflated myths." --Bill Hayton, author of South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia

"One of the best accounts we have of what China's rise really means for the world." --Hugh White, author of The China Choice

"An indispensable guide... brimming with telling insights and arresting stories, China's Asian Dream really hits the ball out of the park." --James Kynge, Emerging Markets Editor for The Financial Times

"A uniquely well informed view of the opportunities, and the huge risks, of China's bold ambitions in the region." --Kerry Brown, author of China and the New Maoists

"Tom Miller tackles the central question of our time: whether China can translate its economic power into geopolitical clout, and execute its breath taking plan to dominate its Asian neighbours." --Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

"One of the best researched volumes on Chinese President Xi Jinping's driving vision, his 'dream' to return his country to the dominant position it had held in Asia since ancient times." --William R. Hawkins, Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research

"A must read for those interested in whether President Xi's reincarnated "Silk Road" will succeed in restoring the grandeur of the Middle Kingdom." --Yukon Huang, former World Bank Director for China