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Re‐Examining China's Charm Offensive Toward Asia: How Much Reshaping of Regional Order?
Author(s) -
Glosny Michael A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
asian politics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1943-0787
pISSN - 1943-0779
DOI - 10.1111/aspp.12298
Subject(s) - china , offensive , regionalism (politics) , order (exchange) , dominance (genetics) , argument (complex analysis) , political science , east asia , economic system , business , economics , politics , law , management , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , democracy , gene
Drawing mostly on Chinese‐language sources, this article examines Chinese assessments of the effectiveness of China's earlier “charm offensive” in increasing China's regional influence and reshaping the regional order according to its preferences. The main argument is that China achieved mixed success. China was successful in preventing others from adopting hostile anti‐China balancing postures, and especially before 2005, successful in attaining support and momentum for its preferred vision of East Asian regional cooperation and regional trade liberalization. China was less successful, however, in shaping the regional security order, although experts recognized the incremental improvements in what would be a gradual process in minimizing the dominance of U.S. alliances. Around 2005, however, Chinese experts noted increased resistance to China's preferred vision for regionalism and regional economic cooperation. The article concludes by examining analytical themes that enabled China to successfully exert regional influence or represented challenges to its efforts to reshape the region.