China's Maritime Power and Strategy

History, National Security and Geopolitics

This book conducts a comprehensive study on China's maritime strategy. It discusses the lessons of maritime power history that must be learnt by Chinese today, the relations between China's maritime strategy and domestic developing problems of China, the status and influence of maritime strategy from China's overall development strategy perspective, and the geopolitical targets of Chinese navy in 2050.

China's maritime strategy is one of the most important academic and realistic subjects in the present and future. This book is the first book to discuss China's maritime strategy comprehensively in and outside China. It will give readers a better sense of why China has to develop its sea power, why it lays so much emphasis on Taiwan and the South China sea, why the country can make friends with India but not Japan, and why China's maritime strategy will never challenge America but has to face the pressure from America's maritime hegemony, and so on.

Contents:

• Historical Lessons of Dealing with the Maritime Offensive Strategy in a Defensive Way
• Learn from the Sea Power Theory and Geopolitical Theory
• The Domestic Motivation of China's Maritime Power Strategy
• The International Environment of China's Maritime Power Strategy
• The Competitors of China's Maritime Power Strategy
• The Geopolitical Watershed of China's Maritime Powers
• Surrounding Environment of China's Maritime Power Strategy
• The Strategic Design for China's Maritime Power in Asia-Pacific

Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, policymakers and professionals interested in China's maritime strategy and geopolitics.
Key Features:

• In-depth and comprehensive analyses on China's maritime strategy
• First book outlines the geopolitical targets of Chinese navy in 2050