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First major book to take stock of China’s foreign policy under Xi Jinping. Offering a unique and insightful framework for analyzing the complexities of China's international engagement, and drawing from authoritative Chinese-language sources, Daring to Struggle presents a sobering account of what Beijing wants in the world under Xi’s leadership and forewarns of a much more contested future for China as a result.

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China Matters offers a concise overview of China’s rise to global prominence and its implications for Australia. Published in 2017 by internationally renowned China-watchers with close ties to Australia, Bates Gill and Linda Jakobson, the book examines the unique dynamism of Australia-China ties across many dimensions but also foresees the looming problems that were to overtake the relationship—challenges that persist between Beijing and Canberra today. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand China’s complexities and how Australia should respond to secure its future.

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Rising Star provides a coherent framework for understanding China’s new security diplomacy and guiding America’s China policy, with a particular focus on issues related to China’s approach to regional security, nonproliferation, and intervention. First published in 2007 and then republished in 2010 in a wholly updated, revised edition, the main arguments and recommendations of the book hold true and, in many respects are more compelling given China’s ascendancy as a more powerful player globally and regionally.

Available from Brookings Institution Press, Amazon and other booksellers.

Jointly edited by Michael J. Green and Bates Gill, Asia’s New Multilateralism draws together some of the best strategic thinkers from across the Asia-Pacific region to assess the shifting security architecture of the region, particularly the emergence of new multilateral institutions and mechanisms. This book was one of the first to correctly foresee how these new multilateral groupings would become arenas of not only of cooperation, but of competition among the great powers.

Available from Columbia University Press, Amazon and other booksellers.

Co-written by Bates Gill, C. Fred Bergsten, Nicholas Lardy, and Derek Mitchell and published in 2006, this book was one of the first to take a comprehensive and cogent look at the challenges and opportunities posed to the United States by a rapidly rising China. China: The Balance Sheet provides a clear-eyed, non-polemical, and fact-based assessment of an increasingly powerful China and lays out recommendations for the United States faced with tough economic, political and security choices in its relations with the emerging superpower.

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