The US-China Military and Defense Relationship during the Obama Presidency

• Main Author: Johnson, James (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Security Challenges
• Subjects: Security, International.; Politics and war.; Asia-Politics and government.; International relations.; International Security Studies.; Military and Defence Studies.; Asian Politics.; Foreign Policy.

This book offers a timely and compelling explanation for the deterioration of U.S.-China security relations during the Obama Presidency. The U.S.-China relationship has become one of (if not the most) vital features of contemporary world politics, and with arrival the Donald Trump to the White House...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introduction: Obama's 'Pivot' to Asia and Air-Sea Battle
• 2.Conceptualizing the U.S.-China Security Dilemma
• 3.Washington's Perceptions and Misperceptions of China's Anti-access Area-denial 'Strategy'
• 4.China's Vision of the Future Networked Battlefield: Emerging Military-Technological Challenges to the United States
• 5.'Guam Express' and 'Carrier Killers': China's Asymmetric Missile Threat to the United States in the Pacific
• 6.Chinese Evolving Approaches to Nuclear 'War-fighting': An Emerging Security Dilemma?
• 7.Concluding remarks.