American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict by Salvador Santino F. Regilme & James Parisot

Author:Salvador Santino F. Regilme & James Parisot [Regilme, Salvador Santino F. & Parisot, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138693814
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

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Nonetheless, China viewed the US attempt to reinforce its alliance with Japan, notably through the enunciation of new security guidelines in 1997, as a potential threat to the region’s order. Chinese analysts and leaders perceived the US to be moving away from its role as a “bottle cap” on Japanese rearmament towards an “egg shell” role, under which the US would provide a military shield for Japan while favoring its ally’s gradual, but steady, rearmament (Christensen 2006). Yet it would be incorrect to posit that mid-1990s US and Japanese military planners re-enacted coercive diplomacy against Beijing, as Christensen does in a later study (Christensen 2011: 221–59). Preliminary evidence shows that Chinese analysts’ assessments were correct, because the Japanese government was more lukewarm to US calls for greater alliance burden-sharing. Tokyo, at this point, did not share Washington’s bleak assessment of regional security. This would continue until the bumpy years of the Koizumi premiership, characterized by the progressive chilling of China–Japan political interaction due especially to the Premier’s yearly visits to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, and China’s staggering economic and military rise finally feeding into Japanese insecurity.

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