Knowledge-Net for a Better World May 2019   Rising China and New Civilization in the Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series ( Section)   "Understanding US and Chinese foreign policy changes brought by ‘the Rise of China’" China’s rapid economic growth since its reform and opening up has propelled it to the status of a global power. If China’s economy continues to grow and subsequently approaches the level of the US GDP at some point in the future, what will the world be like? To explore possible answers to this question, EAI has launched a multi-year research project titled “Rising China and New Civilization in the Asia-Pacific” that aims to identify major global challenges posed by China's continuous growth over the coming decades. For the first year of this research, EAI focused on analyzing current issues and trends relating to China's economy, energy and the environment, technology, and security, and projecting how these will influence China and the surrounding region over the next ten years. In doing so, this research has produced a series of working papers. The following is the sixth series covering the changes in American and Chinese foreign policies. China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy and has been seeking to reform the global governance system to expand its role and influence to match its growing economic power. In an effort to achieve these goals, China has adopted a global development strategy, known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and also created parallel regional organizations and institutions, such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Rumi Aoyama offers a broad picture of such shifts in China’s foreign policy by analyzing changes in perception of the Chinese leadership as well as a wide range of BRI-related activities. [PC Read More]  [Mobile Read More] On the other hand, China’s challenge to the current international system has generated concerns for the US leadership, causing a shift in US policy toward China driven by the view that China’s actions indicated that the US engagement policy had failed. Changes in American approaches to China have become more obvious since President Trump took office. He has taken a tough stance on China and triggered a trade war between the two countries. Ryo Sahashi attempts to show those changes in US policies toward China by examining key events with relation to various issues as well as Japanese responses to the ongoing competition between the US and China. [PC Read More]  [Mobile Read More] Recent Publications Working Paper | Clean at Home, Dirty Abroad: China’s Role in Southeast Asia’s Subcritical Coal Expansion Working Paper | Rising China, Developmental Security and the Emerging Order in the Asia-Pacific Working Paper | China’s Trade: Development, Challenges and Transformations     #909 Sampoong B/D, 158, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, 04548, Republic of Korea Tel 82 2 2277 1683  |  Fax 82 2 2277 1684 | Email EAI Copyright 2019 © EAST ASIA INSTITUTE. All Rights Reserved.