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China’s Rise and U.S.-Japan Alliance : mutual perception, strategies and issues

  • The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
  • Abbr : NEA
  • 2014, 29(1), pp.117-148
  • DOI : 10.18013/jnar.2014.29.1.004
  • Publisher : The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
  • Research Area : Social Science > Political Science > International Politics > International Relations / Cooperation

Gyoosang Seol 1

1한국외국어대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

China has emerged as the second largest economy by Gross Domestic Product owing to dynamic growth for a generation. She now tries to change the regional order by increasing her political and military influence based on such growth. But such an attempt is creating new tension with other major regional powers who are seeking to contain China’s uncontrolled behavior. It accordingly increases uncertainty of the East Asian regional situation. In this regard, this paper analyzes the action taken by the U.S. and Japan in the alliance system to deter China’s aggressive actions and China’s response from the point of interaction, along with the implication which China’s rise provides to the East Asian regional order. After scrutinizing the issues, the writer concludes that any countries concerned would not make extreme choices to the extent that ongoing conflict would eventually drive the region into catastrophe, even though the conflict runs high because of the reinforcement of collaboration between the U.S. and Japan based on the alliance to confront China’s power projection with her rise and China's adherence to assertive stance on major issues.

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