Geopolitics and China's Patronage Strategy
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Geopolitics and China's Patronage Strategy

The Wary Patron, the Autonomous Client, and the Vietnam War

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
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Geopolitics and China's Patronage Strategy

The Wary Patron, the Autonomous Client, and the Vietnam War

About this book

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

By combining for the first time the limit of great power patrons' resources and the agency of client countries, this book accentuates that the costs and uncertainty require China to be a wary patron who must adjust its patronage priorities in order to deal with geopolitical competition. Using China's patronage delivery to North Vietnam during the fierce and geopolitically competitive period of the Vietnam War, the book underscores that neighboring countries' domestic political dynamics, which are out of Beijing's control, drive costs and uncertainty, thus constraining Beijing's choices.

With a wealth of historical materials, including minutes of Chinese decision-makers' conversations with foreign counterparts; selections of Chinese leaders' manuscripts; chronologies of their diplomatic, economic, and military activities; senior Chinese officials' memoirs and biographies; and declassified Chinese official documents, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics, history, and international relations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Tables
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. List of acronyms and abbreviations
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Geopolitics, statecraft, and patronage transfers
  15. 3 A theory of patronage transfers in geopolitical competition
  16. 4 Breaking encirclement: China’s patronage transfers amid intense rivalry with the United States, 1964–1966
  17. 5 Pounding with two fists: China’s patronage transfers amid two-pronged intense geopolitical rivalries, 1967–1970
  18. 6 Romantic triangle: China’s patronage transfers amid the Sino-US rapprochement, 1971–19731
  19. 7 Conclusion
  20. Index