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"This book examines China's national security strategy by looking at the threemajor elements-foreign policy, energy security, and naval power-allinteractive and major influences on China's future and its relations with theUnited States. A decade and a half into the twenty-first century, Beijing requires reliableaccess to energy resources, the navy to defend that access, and foreignpolicies to navigate safely toward its goals. Most importantly, the People'sLiberation Army-Navy (PLAN) must be able to safeguard China's regionalmaritime interests, especially the sovereignty disputes involving Taiwan andthe Yellow, East China, and South China Seas. Many Chinese naval officersand analysts think the United States is determined to contain China andprevent it from achieving the dominant historical position to which it is entitled.This view has been strengthened by Washington's shift to Asia, transfer ofnaval units to the Pacific, and the March 2015 Maritime Strategy released bythe U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. China's relationship with the United States is vital to both countries and to theworld. The relationship is based on both common and divergent interests ineconomics, military operations, and political goals and methods. China'sinternational trading economy and ambition for a world-class navy requireeffective foreign diplomacy and participation in global affairs. This policytrifecta in large part defines China's posture to the world. Beijing isapproximately halfway toward its mid-century goal of deploying a navy capableof defending China's perceived maritime interests. China's priorities followPresident Xi Jinping's definition of national security as ""comprehensive,encompassing politics, the military, the economy, technology, the environmentand culture."" What this means for future Chinese foreign policy choices, asnaval modernization and energy security concerns enable different courses ofaction, lies at the center of this book's conclusions."

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Provides an excellent examination of the nexus between the People's Republic of China's foreign policy, as espoused by President and paramount leader Xi Jinping, and the emergence of the People's Liberation Army Navy as a global player. -Capt. James Fanell, USN (Ret.), government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Provides an excellent examination of the nexus between the People's Republic of China's foreign policy, as espoused by President and paramount leader Xi Jinping, and the emergence of the People's Liberation Army Navy as a global player. -Capt. James Fanell, USN (Ret.), government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy Cole, a retired Navy captain, Auburn University Ph.D. and a former faculty member at the National War College, has been one of the most distinguished and meticulous observers of China's every-growing People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). His latest work is a more than satisfactory culmination of years of scholarship. A comparatively short but tightly written book, it covers a broad field fully and gracefully. - The Northern Mariner China's relationship with the United States is vital to both countries and to the world. The relationship is based on both common and divergent interests in economics, military operations, and political goals and methods. Beijing is approximately halfway toward its midcentury goal of deploying a navy capable of defending China's perceived maritime interests. This book examines China's national security strategy by looking at the three major elements: foreign policy, energy security and naval power; all interactive and major influences on China's future and its relations with the United States. - Sea Technology

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"Capt. Bernard D. Cole, USN (Ret.), is professor emeritus at the National WarCollege. During his Navy career, he commanded USS Rathburne (FF 1057) andDestroyer Squadron 35, as well as served as a naval gunfire liaison officer withthe 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam from June 1967 to July 1968. He earned aPhD in history from Auburn University and was named the Naval Institute Press""Author of the Year"" in 2015. This is his eighth book on Asian energy securityand maritime affairs."

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