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The Rise of China and Security of the Asia-Pacific Region

Dario Kuntić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-8832-1850 ; Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia


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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the People’s Republic of China’s rise towards the status of a regional hegemon which saps U.S. domination in East Asia and undermines the security structure of the Asia-Pacific region. The main premise argues that China strives towards establishment of the Sinocentric regional order, which confronts it with the United States that wants to preserve its predominant position in the Asia-Pacific region. Accordingly, focus of the paper is on an analysis of China’s rise towards the status of regional hegemon and global power, examination of a power transition concept within the international system as a model of understanding the contemporary U.S.-Sino relationship, and analysis of U.S. foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific. It was concluded that China’s endeavours to push out the United States from East Asia and take over the role of regional hegemon will represent tremendous challenge for U.S. domination in the Asia-Pacific region. America’s fear that China will push it out of East Asia will strengthen its efforts to contain extension of China’s power and influence in spite the fact that that endeavours will move it towards serious conflict with increasingly powerful competitor. It is evident that the United States and China enter in a century of a struggle for domination. The question is what the intensity of that struggle will be.

Keywords

America; China; power transition; Sino centrism; hegemony

Hrčak ID:

210701

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/210701

Publication date:

3.12.2018.

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