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What does China’s rise mean for the US and the EU, and for the liberal institutional order the transatlantic powers created? In this volume, American, Chinese, and European scholars seek to answer this question using techniques ranging from historical case studies and quantitative analysis to textual interpretation. The introductory chapter situates these contributions in the context of China’s economic rise in the 20th Century and China’s changing political relationships with the US and the EU over the same time period. It then summarizes the chapters and describes the common themes that emerge from them. First, there is significant variation—both across and within countries—in US and EU perceptions of China’s rise. Second, both history and current events shape these varying perceptions of China’s rise. And third, perceptions are not merely epiphenomenal, but instead shape the material conditions of China’s rise.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See, for instance, Koo (2009) and Reilly (2006).

  2. 2.

    Medeiros and Fravel (2003). For a different perspective, see Wang (2000).

  3. 3.

    Kang (2003).

  4. 4.

    Mearsheimer (2010).

  5. 5.

    Meisner (1999, 75–89).

  6. 6.

    Naughton (2007, 55–84).

  7. 7.

    Ibid., 85–111.

  8. 8.

    Lau et al. (2000); Naughton (2007).

  9. 9.

    Naughton (2007, 406–408).

  10. 10.

    McMillan and Naughton (1992).

  11. 11.

    Medeiros and Fravel (2003, 24–26).

  12. 12.

    Kurlantzick (2007, 88–90).

  13. 13.

    US General Accounting Office (2002).

  14. 14.

    Aggarwal and Evenett (2013, 551).

  15. 15.

    Aggarwal and Evenett (2013).

  16. 16.

    TPP’s current members include Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US, and Vietnam.

  17. 17.

    Zhu (2012).

  18. 18.

    Casey and Koleski (2011).

  19. 19.

    Øystein Tunsjø explores this possibility in detail in Chap. 8.

  20. 20.

    Shen (1986).

  21. 21.

    Ibid.

  22. 22.

    Shen (1986, 1173–1174).

  23. 23.

    Shambaugh et al. (2008); Taneja (2010).

  24. 24.

    European Union External Action Service (2013, 1–3).

  25. 25.

    Casarini (2009, 1).

  26. 26.

    Casarini (2009, 1); “EU Should Keep China Arms Embargo,” The Diplomat, 18 April 2012.

  27. 27.

    European Union External Action Service (2013).

  28. 28.

    Gill and Murphy (2008, vii).

  29. 29.

    Holslag (2011).

  30. 30.

    Gottwald (2010).

  31. 31.

    Vogt (2012, 1–2).

  32. 32.

    Gottwald (2010, 80–81).

  33. 33.

    Kennedy (2005); “China-EU Trade War A Risk for UK Growth,” The Telegraph, 6 June 2013.

  34. 34.

    Meisner (1999, 69–71).

  35. 35.

    For a more detailed discussion of Nixon’s rapprochement with China, see Kissinger (2011) and USC US–China Institute (2011).

  36. 36.

    Lampton (2001, 2–3).

  37. 37.

    Lampton (2001).

  38. 38.

    Lampton (2001, 15–62).

  39. 39.

    Christensen (2011); Kurlantzick (2007).

  40. 40.

    Christensen (2011).

  41. 41.

    “Biden Forcefully Complains to Chinese Leaders About Crackdown on Foreign News Media,” The Washington Post, 5 December 2013; “Chinese Activists Test New Leader and Are Crushed,” The New York Times, 15 January 2014; “Japan Rejects China’s Claim to Air Rights Over Islands,” The New York Times, 24 November 2013.

  42. 42.

    Kang chapter in this volume, 33.

  43. 43.

    Kang chapter in this volume, 41.

  44. 44.

    Kang chapter in this volume, 44.

  45. 45.

    Wang chapter in this volume, 65.

  46. 46.

    Wang chapter in this volume, 67.

  47. 47.

    Shi chapter in this volume, 109.

  48. 48.

    See Oh (2013) for a discussion of this issue.

  49. 49.

    Lindsey and Lukas (1998).

  50. 50.

    “Angry Youth,” The New Yorker, 28 July 2008; Christensen (2011); Gries (2004).

  51. 51.

    Kang (2003).

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Aggarwal, V.K., Newland, S.A. (2015). Introduction. In: Aggarwal, V., Newland, S. (eds) Responding to China’s Rise. The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10034-0_1

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