East Asia has emerged as both a key engine of global economic growth and the region where U.S. and Chinese interests most clearly intersect.
America's longstanding role as the predominant military, diplomatic, and economic power across East Asia has in recent years come under challenge from a rising China. As Beijing’s power and influence have grown, so too have its ambitions. The ways China pursues its objectives in East Asia, and the ways the United States and regional states respond, will together have an outsized impact on the evolution of global politics and the international system.
In a new installment of the Brookings Foreign Policy project "Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World," experts examine China’s activities across East Asia and analyze the expanding toolkit China employs. Regional countries, for their part, have shown varying levels of dexterity in balancing between economic imperatives with China and their own security requirements, and in finding common cause among themselves — and with the United States — in responding to Beijing’s advances.
