Chinas diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy, China has established productive and increasingly solid relationships throughout Asia and around the globe. Yet U.S. policymakers are just beginning to comprehend fully these critical changes. Here, noted China analyst Bates Gill provides a coherent framework for understanding Chinas new security diplomacy and guiding Americas China policy forward.
