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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Nigel Patterson. |
| Summary |
In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to rewrite international law and challenge the democratic values of the United States and its allies. The lightning rods of conflict are remote reefs and islands from which China has created military bases in the 1.5-million-square-mile expanse of the South China Sea, a crucial world trading route that this rising world power now claims as its own. No other Asian country can take on China alone. They look for protection from the United States, although it, too, may be ill-equipped for the job at hand. If China does get away with seizing and militarizing waters here, what will it do elsewhere in the world, and who will be able to stop it? In Asian Waters, award-winning foreign correspondent Humphrey Hawksley breaks down the politics-and tensions-that he has followed through this region for years. Reporting on decades of political developments, he has witnessed China's rise to become one of the world's most wealthy and militarized countries, and delivers in Asian Waters the compelling narrative of this most volatile region. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Territorial waters -- Southeast Asia.
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Conflict management -- South China Sea.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- South China Sea.
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South China Sea -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Strategic aspects.
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China -- Strategic aspects.
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China -- Foreign relations.
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South China Sea -- International status.
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Patterson, Nigel.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977397461 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977397468 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT12168055 |
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