ABSTRACT
In post-Cold War Asia few issues have generated more debate than China’s growing wealth and influence. Be it China’s rise, its future, or the ‘China threat’, the debate has gained greater currency over the years in the media, and in policy and academic circles in Asia and beyond. The accompanying theoretical, historical, and policy questions have also been so numerous and diverse-as well as inconclusive-as to render redundant any attempt to summarise them.1
