Asia Pacific in the Global System

Rising China and its effect on US interests in Asia

1 . Introduction

The last two decades of 20th century saw the emergence of another economic powerhouse from Asia . Japan has no longer been only one from Asia to play a global role on economic front . And surprisingly this country is neither from rich Middle East region nor the ASEAN but the world 's most populous country i .e , People 's Republic of China . World became aware of South Korea only when this nation hosted summer Olympics in the year 1988 but things

with China has been very much different With an annual growth of almost 10 percent , this country doesn 't require any introduction (Sutter , 2006 . People can easily recognize China just by looking into the place of manufacturing on the precious electronic items they possess . The China is no longer a simple communist nation with continued anti-US stance over issues right from Taiwan to UN Vietnam and North Korea . It is currently the factory of the world with extensive infrastructure for the manufacturing of items beginning with a simple T-Shirts to Computer appliances . The very importance of China can be understood with a simple fact that it is the largest economic partner of United States of America (Sutter , 2003

China 's economic rise has also made considerable impact on its military might . The PLA or People 's Liberation Army of China is gaining strategic strengths every year with is currently only power in the world with intentions to take on US military might if needed . These facts have also affected other Asian countries and also in the approach of China in having bilateral relations with other influential Asian powers like India , Middle East and the ASEAN . Despite having very diverse neighborhoods across all sides of it , China has to manage to have either good relations or the steady one . The collapse of USSR and later the renewed ties with Russia has made one thing very much clear that China has no regional threat at its periphery . But what Robert Sutter (2003 through his `China 's Role in Asia-Are US Interests in Jeopardy has wanted to raise that `is the China actively or passively hurting the different US interests in Asia ' or the Chinese have become more moderate in considering the cases of neighboring Asian nations as well as Sine-US bilateral trade . Is this moderation is real or just a veil to the hidden agenda of undermining the importance of US in Asia while projecting itself as the more reliable substitute ? Sutter with his has tried on give overview on China rising in Asia and the threat it poses to US interests and the improved US China relationship during the recent year of Bush Administration (Sutter , 2003

2 . China : a threat and an economic partner

The relationship between the US and China has seen remarkable shift . In the beginning , the Bush administration while getting over the hangover of Clinton 's administration demoted the position of China in its...