ABSTRACT
The preceding chapter concerned China at the general ‘systemic’ level. Within the international system, China particularly impacted on other significant actors in various ways during the 1990s. The United States is dealt with within the following chapter, given China’s key global and regional relationship with it, but already Growing Strong: China’s Challenge to Asian Security was a process isolated by Shambaugh (1994a). China may have had its drive for ‘traditional Great-Power status’ (Wortzel 1994; also Khalilzad 1999: 137), but it was ‘an irredentist China with a boulder rather than just a chip on its shoulder’ (Segal 1996: 110). As such there was a regional re-ordering in the offing, a ‘Chinese hegemony’ emerging in East Asia for Huntington (1997: 229-38), a Hegemon on the Horizon? China’s Threat to East Asian Security (D. Roy 1994), with perhaps Chinese Hegemony over East Asia by 2015? (Shambaugh 1997b). As China stood ever more strongly up in the world its impact on its neighbours were all the more noticeable (i.e. Russia, Southeast Asia and Australasia, India and Japan).
