TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shambaugh,David L.
TI  - Where great powers meet: America and China in Southeast Asia 
SN  - 9780190091132
AV  - DS525.8 
U1  - 327.59051 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 21st century
KW  - United States
KW  - China
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "Great power rivalry is back. On the complicated landscape of international relations today one predominant factor is rising to the fore: comprehensive competition between the United States and People's Republic of China. This competition is now playing out across all functional domains-diplomacy, commerce, security, intelligence, ideology and values, science and technology, and others-as well as across all continents and many countries. This book is about how the two powers are competing in one geostrategically important part of the world: Southeast Asia. For the United States, the shift from "engagement" to "competition" with China has been the product of a seismic shift in American thinking about China in recent years. Over the past decade a variety of constituencies became progressively more frustrated with Chinese behavior in their respective professional spheres: the U.S. military, diplomats, educators, members of Congress, media and journalists, NGOs of a wide variety, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and especially the business community. As a result of these growing frustrations with trying to carry on what should be normal cooperative interactions with Chinese counterparts, a progressive groundswell in antipathy and shift in attitudes about China occurred among these constituencies and across the country"--
ER  -