Rising China: power and reassurance

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Introduction / Ron Huisken -- China's key bilateral relationships: partners or just peers? -- America. The outlook for US-China relations / Ron Huisken -- Closer and more balanced: China-US relations in transition / Jia Qingguo -- Japan. China-Japan relations at a new juncture / Zhang Tuosheng -- Japanese perspectives on the rise of China / Koji Watanabe -- India and Russia. Sino-Indian relations and the rise of China / Sandy Gordon -- The rise of Chindia and its impact on the world system / Zhao Gancheng -- Sino-Russian relations in the 'post'-Putin era / Yu Bin -- Alliances, military balances and strategic policy. How China thinks about national security / Xia Liping -- China's national defence: challenges and responses / Fan Gaoyue -- China's defence industries: change and continuity / Richard Bitzinger and J.D. Kenneth Boutin -- Multilateral processes: countering or reflecting regional cleavages? China's participation in Asian multilateralism: pragmatism prevails / Mingjiang Li -- The perils and prospects of dragon riding: reassurance and -- 'costly signals' in China-ASEAN relations / See Seng Tan -- 'Architectural alternatives or alternatives toarchitecture?' / Robert Ayson and Brendan Taylor.