November 2015

China Reshapes Asia

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In the last two years China has made a bold push to expand its influence in Asia, using both the carrot of well-funded infrastructure diplomacy (the “Belt-and-Road Initiative”) and the stick of forceful assertion of territorial claims in the South and East China Seas. In a special double issue, CEQ asks what explains this newly assertive foreign policy, and what are its effects likely to be?

Also in this issue:

• Arthur Kroeber explores whether the US and China are doomed to fall into the “Thucydides trap” of armed conflict between an incumbent and a rising power