POLI 338 Chapter Notes -Opportunism
5 Apr 2013
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Grinter china, the united states, and mainland southeast asia: Both beijing and washington experience limits to their policies in southeast. Burma is an ally of china, but weary of too much chinese penetration. Washington is close with thailand, but is dismayed that bangkok is willing to substantially engage economically with china. Furthermore, china views southeast asia from a strategic viewpoint while the. Introduction not competitive or ideological levels of cold war still, show interesting and complicated aspects sometimes tends toward zero-sum outcomes quasi-client relations: us and thailand; china and burma. Chinese policies mix of opportunism and long-term strategy latter aimed to enhance prc leverage, block/counterbalance u. s. and indian influence, and secure states for chinese advantage.
