Table Of ContentWhere Great Powers Meet
Where Great Powers Meet
America & China in Southeast Asia
DAVID SHAMBAUGH
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Names: Shambaugh, David L., author.
Title: Where great powers meet : America and China in Southeast Asia / David Shambaugh.
Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. | Includes index. |
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Subjects: LCSH: Southeast Asia—Foreign relations—21st century. | United States—Foreign relations—
China. | China—Foreign relations—United States. | United States—Foreign relations—Southeast Asia. |
Southeast Asia—Foreign relations—United States. | China—Foreign relations—Southeast Asia. |
Southeast Asia—Foreign relations—China. | United States—Foreign relations—21st century. |
China—Foreign relations—21st century.
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Dedicated with Great Admiration to
Professor Wang Gungwu
Exceptional Scholar, Gentleman, Colleague, Friend, and, Inspiration
OTHER BOOKS BY DAVID SHAMBAUGH
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China & the World (edited, 2020)
The China Reader: Rising Power (edited, 2016)
China’s Future (2016)
International Relations of Asia (co- edited, 2008 and 2014)
China Goes Global: The Partial Power (2013)
Tangled Titans: The United States and China (edited, 2012)
Charting China’s Future: Domestic & International Challenges (edited, 2011)
China’s Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation (2008)
China- Europe Relations: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects (co- edited, 2008)
China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the United States
(co- edited, 2007)
Power Shift: China & Asia’s New Dynamics (edited, 2005)
The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures
(co-authored, 2005)
Modernizing China’s Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (2002)
Making China Policy: Lessons from the Bush and Clinton Administrations
(co- edited, 2001)
The Modern Chinese State (edited, 2000)
Is China Unstable? (edited, 2000)
The China Reader: The Reform Era (co- edited, 1999)
China’s Military Faces the Future (co- edited, 1999)
Contemporary Taiwan (edited, 1998)
China’s Military in Transition (co- edited, 1997)
China and Europe: 1949– 1995 (1996)
Greater China: The Next Superpower? (edited, 1995)
Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman (edited, 1995)
Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory & Practice (co- edited, 1994)
American Studies of Contemporary China (edited, 1993)
Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972– 1990 (1991)
The Making of a Premier: Zhao Ziyang’s Provincial Career (1984)
Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Preface xiii
1. Sino- American Competition in Southeast Asia 1
PART I. THE AMERICAN ENCOUNTER
WITH SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. America’s Legacies in Southeast Asia 19
3. America’s Contemporary Roles in Southeast Asia 62
PART II. THE CHINESE ENCOUNTER
WITH SOUTHEAST ASIA
4. China’s Legacies in Southeast Asia 107
5. China’s Contemporary Roles in Southeast Asia 136
PART III. SOUTHEAST ASIAN ENCOUNTERS
WITH AMERICA AND CHINA
6. Navigating between the Giants: ASEAN’S Agency 179
PART IV. THE FUTURE OF GREAT POWER
RELATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
7. Sino- American Competition in Southeast Asia: Polarization or
Competitive Coexistence? 241
Acknowledgments 253
Notes 257
Index 309
List of Figures
0.1 USS Carl Vinson xiii
0.2 The author aboard USS Carl Vinson xiv
0.3 Forest City development xv
0.4 Scale model of Forest City xvi
0.5 The Malacca Straits near Singapore xvii
0.6 Melaka Gateway xviii
2.1 Edmund Roberts 21
2.2 Townsend Harris 21
2.3 Alfred Thayer Mahan 23
2.4 The Olympia leads the Asiatic Squadron in Manila Bay (1898) 24
2.5 General Douglas MacArthur promises: “I shall return” 27
2.6 MacArthur’s “island-h opping” campaign 28
2.7 French Indochina 32
2.8 Official portrait of President Sukarno (1949) 40
2.9 Robert McNamara 45
2.10 President Ronald Reagan with Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos 52
3.1 President Barack Obama at East Asian Summit 63
3.2 President Donald Trump greets Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte 70
3.3 APCSS National Security Course for Southeast Asia 83
3.4 Indo- Pacific Command area of operation 85
4.1 Early Southeast Asia and maritime trade routes, third to ninth centuries ce 113
4.2 Indonesian postage stamp commemorating Zheng He voyages 115
4.3 Sun Yat- sen in Singapore (1906) 119
4.4 Zhou Enlai addresses the Bandung Conference (1955) 125
5.1 Author with Minister-C ounselor Jiang Qin at China’s Mission
to ASEAN, Jakarta 145
5.2 The ASEAN Secretariat 148
5.3 ASEAN Secretariat organizational structure 149
