China in Oceania : : Reshaping the Pacific? / / ed. by Terence Wesley-Smith, Edgar A. Porter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Iati, Iati,; Izumi, Kobayashi,; Kabutaulaka, Tarcisius Tara,; Langa‘oi, Palenitina,; Mita, Takashi,; Nelson, Hank,; Porter, Edgar A.,; Powles, Michael,; Tarte, Sandra,; Wesley-Smith, Terence,; Willmott, Bill,; Zhang, Yongjin,
• HerausgeberIn: Porter, Edgar A.,; Wesley-Smith, Terence,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

It is important to see China’s activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing’s recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China’s policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the developing world, a major work in progress that involves similar initiatives in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. This groundbreaking study of China’s “soft power” initiatives in these countries offers, for the first time, the diverse perspectives of scholars and diplomats from Oceania, North American, China, and Japan. It explores such issues as regional competition for diplomatic and economic ties between Taiwan and China, the role of overseas Chinese in developing these relationships, and various analyses of the benefits and drawbacks of China’s growing presence in Oceania. In addition, the reader obtains a rare review of the Japanese response to China’s role in Oceania, presented by Japan’s leading scholar of the Pacific region.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Oceania Matters -- Chapter 1. China’s Pacific Engagement -- Chapter 2. A Regional Power by Default -- Chapter 3. Challenges, Opportunities, and the Case for Engagement -- Chapter 4. China’s Advances in Oceania and Japan’s Response -- Chapter 5. The Overseas Chinese Experience in the Pacific -- Chapter 6. Chinese in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 7. Fiji’s “Look North” Strategy and the Role of China -- Chapter 8. Milking the Dragon in Solomon Islands -- Chapter 9. China and Samoa -- Chapter 10. China’s Diplomatic Relations with the Kingdom of Tonga -- Chapter 11. Changing Attitudes and the Two Chinas in the Republic of Palau -- Appendix. China and Taiwan in Oceania: Selected Documents -- About the Contributors -- Index