China's Asian Dream

The latest edition of Miller's seminal work, exploring what China's rise means for the future of Asia, and of the world.

A must read for those interested in whether President Xi's reincarnated Silk Road will succeed in restoring the grandeur of the Middle Kingdom.

Vorwort
The latest edition of Miller's seminal work, exploring what China's rise means for the future of Asia, and of the world.

Autorentext
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 SOAS 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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'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.

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Introduction

1. "One Belt, One Road": Financing the New Silk Road
   Belt and Road Initiative
   Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
   Asia's infrastructure arms race

2. Marching West: The Economics of Power in Central Asia
   Xinjiang
   Central Asia
   Russia

3. In the Heat of the Sun: Advancing Down the Mekong
   Laos
   Cambodia

4. California Dreamin': How China "Lost" Myanmar
   Gateway to the Bay of Bengal

5. A String of Pearls: Fear and Loathing in the Indian Ocean
   Indian Ocean
   Pakistan
   India
   Sri Lanka

6. Fiery Waters: Mapping the South China Sea
   Vietnam

Conclusion