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China's "Power Projection" Capabilities, Thomas M. Kane Dec 2014

China's "Power Projection" Capabilities, Thomas M. Kane

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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China's Military Mercantilism, Christopher Bowen Johnston Dec 2014

China's Military Mercantilism, Christopher Bowen Johnston

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Rebalancing The Rebalance, Michael Spangler Jun 2014

Rebalancing The Rebalance, Michael Spangler

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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The New Cold War, Michael G. Roskin Mar 2014

The New Cold War, Michael G. Roskin

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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China's North Korea Policy: Rethink Or Recharge?, Andrew Scobell, Mark Cozad Mar 2014

China's North Korea Policy: Rethink Or Recharge?, Andrew Scobell, Mark Cozad

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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China's Use Of Economic Hard Power In The 21st Century, Taylor Shippen Jan 2014

China's Use Of Economic Hard Power In The 21st Century, Taylor Shippen

BYU Asian Studies Journal

China’s growing willingness to project military power may make the nightly news, but military power is not China’s greatest tool in achieving political ends. Since Deng Xiaoping began his reforms in 1978, economic influence has been the source of many of China’s diplomatic breakthroughs with the West. Although there is some dispute among scholars about what to call China’s growing influence (Klein 1994: 39; Huang 2013), for the purposes of this paper, China’s growing persuasiveness will be based on Joseph Nye’s definition of hard power, which he defines as “the ability to use the carrots and sticks of economic and …


On The Fringe: China's Disability Laws Through The Lens Of The Traditional Culture, Brandon Christensen Jan 2014

On The Fringe: China's Disability Laws Through The Lens Of The Traditional Culture, Brandon Christensen

BYU Asian Studies Journal

Explosive economic growth over the last two decades has dramatically increased China’s standard of living and given rise to a rapidly growing middle class. Political reform, however, has been slow to follow with decades-old legal restrictions on civil liberties still firmly in place. Among China’s underdeveloped civil protections is the right for people with disabilities to enjoy freedom from popular and institutional prejudice in language or action, especially when seeking employment. Recent revisions of China’s disability laws provide increased employment protections, but latent prejudicial language and traditional stereotypes in the law suggest these revisions may not reach the core objective …