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  title info:
    title: Asia's reckoning
    sub title: China, Japan, and the fate of U.S. power in the Pacific century
  name:
    name part: McGregor, Richard
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A history of the combative military, diplomatic and economic relations among China, Japan and the United States since the 1970s, and the potential crisis that lies ahead. Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical divisions in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump's disdain for America's old alliances and China's own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, which is now the anchor of the global economy, Asia's Reckoning reveals how that structure is coming apart. With unrivaled access to archives in the United States and Asia, as well as to many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written an account that blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with bitter domestic politics and the personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The about-turn of Japan, from a colossus seemingly poised for world domination to a nation in inexorable decline in the space of two decades, has few parallels in modern history, as does the rapid rise of China, a country whose military is now larger than those of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asia combined. The confrontational course on which China and Japan are set is no simple spat between neighbors, for the United States would be obligated to support Japan in any military conflict that arose between the two. The fallout would be an economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes and political capitals on every continent. Asia's Reck…
  table of contents: Postwar. China, red or green -- The seventies. Countering Japan ; Five ragged islands -- The eighties. The golden years ; Japan says no -- The nineties. Asian values ; Apologies and their discontents -- The twenty-first century. Yasukuni respects ; History's cauldron ; The Ampo mafia ; The rise and retreat of great powers ; China lays down the law ; Nationalization ; Creation myths ; Freezing point.
  note: Richard McGregor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Eastern question (Far East)
  subject:
    topic: Balance of power
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Asia / General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
  classification: E183.8.C5 M386 2017
  classification: 327.73051
  identifier: 9780399562679 (hardcover)
  identifier: 0399562672 (hardcover)
  identifier: 9780399562686 (ebook)
  identifier: 2017025382
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170824
    record change date: 20180214132155.0
    record identifier: in00003894180