Beijing's power and China's borders
Subtitle: twenty neighbors in Asia
By: edited by Bruce A. Elleman, Stephen Kotkin, and Clive Schofield
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780765627636; 9780765627643
Subjects: Boundaries; Foreign relations
Description: "China shares borders with 20 neighboring countries--more than any other country in the world, by a factor of two. Each of the neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, that includes territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some of them never amicably settled. This book brings together some of the foremost historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars on modern Asia to examine each of China's twenty land or sea borders. The alphabetically arranged chapters cover Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Indonesia, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. Each chapter details the history and status of boundary setting and the ongoing management of transnational interactions--trade, resource exploitation, fishing rights, and population movements. An introduction and a concluding chapter draw out the implications of the book's twenty case studies. Issues examined include: the early history of setting the border with China; the ways in which China has acquired "new" boundaries as a result of changes in the international law of the sea; the type and intensity of China's border conflicts with its neighbors; successful efforts to delimit official borders; unsuccessful efforts to delimit borders; and areas where future border disputes could arise"--Supplied by publisher.
Notes: "A publication of the Northeast Asia Seminar"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sino-Afghani border relations / Artemy Kalinovsky; title: Bhutan-China border disputes and their geopolitical implications / Paul J. Smith; title: Brunei's contested sea border with China / Ian Storey; title: India's intractable border dispute with China / Brahma Chellaney; title: Indonesia's "invisible border" with China / I Made Andi Arsana and Clive Schofield; title: Sino-Japanese territorial and maritime disputes / June Teufel Dreyer; title: Kazakhstan's border relations with China / Stephen Blank; title: Sino-Korean border relations / Charles K. Armstrong; title: Kyrgyzstan : China's regional playground? / Erica Marat; title: The China-Laos boundary : Lan Xang meets the Middle Kingdom / Ian Townsend-Gault; title: Malaysia and China : economic growth overshadows sovereignty dispute / Vivian Louis Forbes; title: Sino-Mongol border : from conflict to precarious resolution / Morris Rossabi; title: The Sino-Myanmar border / Brendan Whyte; title: China-Nepal border : potential hot spot? / Chitra K. Tiwari; title: The Sino-Pakistan border : stability in an unstable region / Christopher Tang; title: Philippine-China border relations : cautious engagement amidst tensions / Lowell Bautista and Clive Schofield; title: Sino-Russian border resolution / Mark Galeotti; title: PRC disputes with the ROC on Taiwan / Bruce A. Elleman; title: Tajikistan-China border normalization / Gregory Gleason; title: Sino-Vietnamese border disputes / Ramses Amer.