ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the analysis of Chinese security perceptions of the United States, focusing on the George W. Bush presidency. The chapter begins by looking at how PRC scholars and analysts perceive US global strategy since 2001, with special emphasis on Chinese security analysis of the impact of 9/11 and the challenge of global terrorism on US security strategy. This is followed by an examination of Chinese discourse of the nature and implications of the Bush Doctrine and America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003. The chapter then goes on to consider China’s perceptions of Bush’s Asia-Pacific security strategy. Special consideration is given to the views of Chinese scholars on American strategy towards Japan, China, Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula. The chapter will conclude with an analysis of Chinese security discourse of Bush’s global and Asia-Pacifi c strategy from the perspectives of realism, liberalism, constructivism and postmodernism.
