China's search for a global role

Current History

Volumn 98, Issue 629, 1999, Pages 266-269

  Yahuda, Michael ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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References (5)

1. For further discussion of the attributes of great-power status in the contemporary world, see Samuel S. Kim, "China as a Great Power," in Current History, September 1997.
2. Gerald Segal's useful term. See his "Does China Matter?" Foreign Affairs, September-October 1999.
3. Many of these territorial claims are arbitrary, since they depend on dubious treatments of the historical record where contemporary legal concepts of sovereignty, territoriality, and constitutional obligations are read back into past relationships that were based on principles alien to the modern world. For further elaboration see Michael Yahuda, "The Changing Faces of Chinese Nationalism: Dimensions of Statehood," in Michael Leifer, ed., Nationalism in Asia (London: Routledge, forthcoming 1999).
4. Quotations are from the Sino-Russian partnership agreement in the BBC Monitoring Service: Asia Pacific, November 25, 1998.
5. The Chinese version in Beijing Review, December 14-20, 1998, pp. 6-8, offers slightly different wording.