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The Making of a Maritime Power

Part of the Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1786-5

ISBN: 978-981-10-1785-8

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Oct 26, 2016

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Chapter 1China’s Maritime Rise as a Historical Trend

Kong, Zhiguo

Pages: 1 –30

[Is China a maritime state? Will it become a great maritime power? For this increasingly influential country that is about to overtake the US as the world’s largest economy, is the vast expanse of water a springboard or a short board? Opportunities or risks? Should there come a day when China...
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Chapter 2The Great Maritime Power Dream: Challenges and Problems

Kong, Zhiguo

Pages: 31 –68

[The future is bright, yet the road to that future is full of twists and turns. China will eventually rise to become a great maritime nation that deserves this title in every respect. This will be an irresistible historical trend, but the process will not be plain sailing. In fact, it will be...
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Chapter 3Evolution of International Sea Power: Trend and Influence

Kong, Zhiguo

Pages: 69 –96

[China has not done well in following and understanding the evolution of international sea power and maritime development at a strategic level, and it cannot preserve its complete sea power and promote its capacities of maritime development and exploitation in a vacuum environment. This has been...
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Chapter 4Peaceful Growth: Dilemma and Prerequisites

Kong, Zhiguo

Pages: 97 –115

[From the preceding discussions, beyond the challenges, limitations, and suppression faced by China as it moves towards the oceans, we can see that first of all, the fundamental truth that the dream of the great renewal of the Chinese nation is being limited by the sea. The oceans can turn at any...
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Chapter 5Learning from Tuntian of Western Han

Kong, Zhiguo

Pages: 117 –143

[The core sea power issue that confronts China is this: how to ensure the country’s maritime security within the modern environment, and how to keep a balance between maintaining effective military deterrence and the maximization of benefits gained from the seas. While doing so, China also needs...
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Chapter 6Peaceful Rise: Strategic Prospect and Recommendations

Kong, Zhiguo

Pages: 145 –172

[The background to the policy of tuntian is rather similar to the challenging scenario that China faces today as it seeks to take its development to the oceans. The effects of the policy of tuntian are also similar to what China seeks to achieve—or even exceeds its objectives—with its maritime...

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