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This book utilises publicly available materials, such as US diplomatic cables leaked about a decade ago, to provide an inside look at the regional dynamics between China and its East Asian neighbours. It is increasingly important in this field to step out of the echo chamber of the West-dominant narratives, and to adopt a realistic assessment of the region.There is a near consensus that East Asia is the most important region in the 21st century due to the size of its population and economy. Nevertheless, alarmist predictions about its future stability keep coming from pundits. Indeed, East Asia in the aftermath of the Cold War might provide the most likely case study for realists to prove their pessimism about inter-state relations due to historical rivalries, territorial disputes, economic competition, great power politics and deep-rooted realist beliefs among politicians in the region. However, East Asia has stayed defiant to these Western framings of regional dynamics. People interested in East Asia and Chinese foreign policy will find this book useful in furthering their understanding of how China has interacted with other East Asian states in the post-Cold War setting in light of tradition, regional structure and great power competitions.

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Zhipei Chi is an Assistant Research Fellow in the Institute of Defense Economics and Management at the Central University of Finance and Economics, China. His areas of interest include technology competition between states, China-US relations, East Asian regional politics and economic statecraft. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals on these topics, as well as a monograph on the 'technology cold war' between China and the US. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Peking University in 2006 and 2009, respectively. After earning his doctoral degree in Political Science from Arizona State University in 2014, he started in his current position at Central University in 2015.

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