ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119400071
A. S. Mubah
{"title":"Indonesia’s Double Hedging Strategy toward the United States–China Competition: Shaping Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific?","authors":"A. S. Mubah","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119400071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119400071","url":null,"abstract":"This study highlights Indonesia’s strategy in response to the growing competition between the United States and China. In recent years, Indonesia under the administration of President Joko Widodo h...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"21 1","pages":"1940007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73387755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119500073
Sung Chull Kim
{"title":"China and Its Neighbors: Asymmetrical Economies and Vulnerability to Coercion","authors":"Sung Chull Kim","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119500073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119500073","url":null,"abstract":"With respect to China and its neighbors, what are the political implications when a great power advances economically into small states? This paper presents an asymmetry–coercion linkage to explain...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"47 1","pages":"1950007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78548158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119020028
Scott L. Kastner
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue — US–China Competition and Its Implications for East Asia","authors":"Scott L. Kastner","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119020028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119020028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"195 1","pages":"1902002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77296195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119400095
W. Norris
{"title":"The Socialization of China’s Assertiveness: Examining Waltz’s Neorealist Mechanism of “Socialization” in China’s Regional Security Relations","authors":"W. Norris","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119400095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119400095","url":null,"abstract":"This is a study of learning and socialization in China’s foreign security policy, examining how China has at times been more assertive and in other instances has taken a more accommodating approach...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"128 1","pages":"1940009"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76877386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119400083
F. W. Yang
{"title":"Asymmetrical Interdependence and Sanction: China’s Economic Retaliation over South Korea’s THAAD Deployment","authors":"F. W. Yang","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119400083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119400083","url":null,"abstract":"Since China’s economic rise, there has been an upsurge of cases demonstrating that the country has translated its increasing economic capabilities into political influence over other states. The fo...","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"173 1","pages":"1940008"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85426463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-10-21DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119400046
Jiadong Zhang, Qian Sun
{"title":"China–India Relations: A Premature Strategic Competition between the Dragon and the Elephant","authors":"Jiadong Zhang, Qian Sun","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119400046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119400046","url":null,"abstract":"The factors affecting the relationship between China and India can be divided into three categories: structural factors, hard factors, and soft factors. The structural factors are mainly geopolitical factors determined by national strength, geographical features and international status. Hard factors mainly include border conflicts, Tibetan issues, China–Pakistan relations and water disputes, which are difficult to solve and highly sensitive. Soft factors include a trade imbalance, visa issues, different notions of history, strategic differences, and the relationship between the two countries on the international stage. These three kinds of factors are differentiated. Their importance and influence on China–India relations are also changing. Geopolitical factors have begun to play more important role in the bilateral relationship of the two rising countries in the past few years, leading to their strategic competition. This competition has grown despite the fact that the two countries have not yet achieved a status as leaders of world politics. This premature strategic competition will hinder the development of the two countries and will make the “Asian century” hard to realize. For the security and interests of both nations and Asia as a whole, China and India must establish a more stable geopolitical relationship, promote bilateral cooperation in the field of hard and soft factors, and find opportunities for cooperation in new areas and spaces. Finally, China and India need to build a new type of power relations.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82183771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-10-21DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119400058
G. Ali
{"title":"China–Pakistan Maritime Cooperation in the Indian Ocean","authors":"G. Ali","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119400058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119400058","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that during the last two decades, China and Pakistan have strengthened their maritime cooperation in the Indian Ocean to their mutual benefit. Based upon its geostrategic location and vast maritime experience, Pakistan has promoted China’s growing interests in the Indian Ocean and received China’s economic, technological and military assistance in return. India has responded to these developments by expanding its naval power, adding a nuclear component and aligning with like-minded states. The paper concludes that a lack of institutional mechanisms, coordination and trust among the three can potentially expand their rivalry seawards, triggering a new naval arms race.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78508879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-10-21DOI: 10.1142/s101325111940006x
U. Pyakurel
{"title":"The BRI, Nepal’s Expectations, and Limitations on Nepal–China Border Relations","authors":"U. Pyakurel","doi":"10.1142/s101325111940006x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s101325111940006x","url":null,"abstract":"Many Nepalese perceive China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a useful means for the India-locked country to connect to other countries. However, this paper analyzes the weakening connectivity within the border areas of Nepal and Tibet since falling under Chinese control, concluding that China is unready to increase cross-border movement and trade facilities with Nepal due to perceived security concerns.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82553125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ISSUES & STUDIESPub Date : 2019-09-01DOI: 10.1142/s1013251119500061
Elfie Swerts
{"title":"Spatial Deployment of the Chinese Property Market (2010–2016)","authors":"Elfie Swerts","doi":"10.1142/s1013251119500061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251119500061","url":null,"abstract":"Real estate activities and companies in China have grown considerably since the major reforms of the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial deployment of firms linked to the Chinese real estate market in Chinese cities in 2010, 2013 and 2016. It provides a first mapping of multinational firms specialized in the real estate sector. It describes the patterns of ownership networks built by financial links both between foreign multinational firms and Chinese firms and among multinational firms themselves. It therefore provides a new understanding about the penetration of both foreign direct investment (FDI) and Hong Kong’s role in the Chinese real estate market. This paper provides a comparison of the spatial location logics of these firms according to their Chinese or foreign origin and offers a new perspective on the geography of real estate investment by analyzing financial links between the Chinese and foreign cities involved.","PeriodicalId":53213,"journal":{"name":"ISSUES & STUDIES","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81318640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}