Lee and editors bring together a group of international scholars to map the overall landscape of de-risking China - a concept that drew consensus among the Group of Seven (G7) countries.
Divided into three themes of conceptual evolution, national responses of individual Indo-Pacific countries and prospects of success with featured case studies, this groundbreaking work explores the origins and developments of de-risking China in a region that will define the 21st century. Drawing on rich findings by different scholars, it demonstrates that a wide spectrum of variations exists insofar as the Indo-Pacific countries observance to the concept of de-risking China.
This is a must-read book for academics, scholars and university students of International Relations and Political Science, as well as those interested in understanding the evolving dynamics of de-risking China among the Indo-Pacific countries today.
Lee and editors bring together a group of international scholars to map the overall landscape of de-risking China - a concept that drew consensus among the Group of Seven (G7) countries.
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. De-Risking China: The Evolution of European Strategic Thinking
(20192024)
2. US and De-risking China
3. Germanys Strategic Balancing Act: Navigating Economic Dependence and
Systemic Rivalry with China
4. Chinas Mitigation of Chips-Derisking by the West (US, the Dutch and
Chips4)
5. Japans Evolving Approach to Economic Security under U.S.-China Rivalry: A
Departure from the Pacifist State?
6. Navigating Risk: South Koreas Strategic Approach to China
7. De-risking China: Taiwan as Method
8. Between Security and Economics: Indias De-risking Strategy towards China
9. Indonesias Responses to De-risking China vis-ą-vis the US and Allies:
The Nexus of Domestic and International Interest
10. In the Dragons Shadow: How Has Vietnams Selective De-risking Strategy
Played Out?
11. Malaysias Multi-Alignment Approach to De-risking China Wave: The Quest
for Semiconductor Powerhouse
Conclusion
Index
Karl Chee Leong Lee is a Senior Lecturer for the Institute of China Studies (ICS), University of Malaya; an Advisor to Taiwan Chamber of Commerce in Malaysia (TWCHAM); and Editor-in-Chief for the Scopus-indexed International Journal of China Studies (IJCS). A Taiwan scholar on a myriad of research areas, his research interests include TaiwanSoutheast Asia overall relations, Taiwans New Southbound Policy (NSP), semiconductor geoeconomics and economictechnological statecraft (ETS).
Jens Damm is an Associate Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany. His research interests include the new media and the Internet, Chinas soft power and gender studies.
Nurliana Kamaruddin is a Senior Lecturer at the East Asian Studies Department, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Malaya. She is also a Fellow at the Centre for Asia-Europe Institute (AEI). Her research interests include international security and development with a focus on East Asia and specifically MalaysiaKorea relations.
Nur Shahadah Jamil is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of China Studies (ICS), University of Malaya (UM). Having received a PhD in Strategic and Security Studies from the National University of Malaysia (UKM), her research concentrates mainly on Chinas foreign policy, South China Sea, Southeast Asian responses to the Belt and Road Initiative and East Asian Security.
Alan Hao Yang is a Distinguished Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies (GIEAS) and Deputy Director of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) at National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan. He has been engaging in track II diplomacy and currently works as the Executive Director for NCCUs Center for Southeast Asian Studies, which served as the secretariat of the Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA). His research interests cover International Relations and regionalism in Southeast Asia, environmental governance and disaster resilience, border politics, resistance politics in Southeast Asia, foreign policy and soft power analysis with a specific focus on Chinas Confucius Institute and Taiwans New Southbound Policy (NSP).
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