- ISBN13: 9780061363085
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
With the world’s fastest-growing markets, fastest-rising military expenditures, and most volatile hot spots, a resurgent Asia holds the key to the future global order. Facing complex security, energy, and developmental challenges in this era of globalization and ever-sharpening interstate competition, a strong China, a strong India, and a strong Japan need to move beyond historical legacies and find ways to reconcile their interests in order to coexist peacefully and achieve greater prosperity.
In Asian Juggernaut, Brahma Chellaney, a renowned authority on Asia’s political and economic development, explores the importance of this strategic triangle formed by Asia’s three largest economies offer a clear, insightful, and revelatory analysis of their cooperative future and pivotal role on the world stage.
Revised and updated, with a new foreword by the author
Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan
A very thorough, well researched and extensively documented book with penetrating analysis of the competition between China, Japan, and India for natural resources and leadership in Asia.
I was most impressed by the extensive documentation of Chinese military activities to contain India, including aggression from Tibet, military activities in Pakistan and Burma, projection of sea power into the Indian Ocean, and cartographic aggression on Chinese maps of Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh.
Agrarian unrest in China is another uncertainty that has been growing, and there is no way to know if the Communist Party can contain it over the long term.
An interesting section on the the Chinese use of fanciful history, where they use legends or interpret or reinvent history to justify otherwise weak claims to Tibet, Taiwan, the Spratly Islands, Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh.
Where China has the most conflict with India and Japan is over oil. All of them are very dependent on the Middle East, particularly Iran. That is why China has been using its membership on the UN Security Council to protect Iran from nuclear sanctions.
Extensive source lists for every chapter, and an appendix with the full text of significant diplomatic documents.
Rating: 5 / 5