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Introduction: The Emergence of “Greater China”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

David Shambaugh
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The post-Cold War world is witnessing the reconfiguration of international relations with the emergence of new actors and relationships on the world stage. These new actors and patterns of relations are reshaping the familiarities of the post-war era. As the new millennium approaches, one has the sense that the world is in transition from one epoch to another. Among the new realities of our era is the emergence of “Greater China.”

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Greater China
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The China Quarterly , Volume 136 , December 1993 , pp. 653 - 659
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1993

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1. This scenario depends very much on the assumption that China itself holds together as a national economic and political unit. Increased regionalism, devolution of power and decline of central authority in China are not insignificant trends that may lead to the fragmentation of the Chinese nation-state in the post-Deng era. This is, of course, only one of several possible alternative futures facing China. See Robert Scalapino's contribution to this issue as well as Shambaugh, David, “Losing control: the erosion of state authority in China,” Current History (09 1993), pp. 253–59Google Scholar; and Harding, Harry, “China at the cross-roads: conservatism, reform or decay?” Adelphi Paper 275 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1993), pp. 36–48Google Scholar.

2. Interview in Taipei, 13 November 1990.