TY  - BOOK
AU  - HOLSLAG Jonathan
TI  - Trapped giant: China's military rise 
SN  - 9780415669894 (pbk.)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Abingdon
PB  - Routledge for The International Institute for Strategic Studies
KW  - CHINA
KW  - DEFENCE POLICY
KW  - MILITARY POLICY
KW  - NATIONAL SECURITY
N2  - This book analyses China's inexorable rise from peasant society to economic powerhouse. In charting the line that Beijing has walked in building up its forces alongside its network of trading links to Asia and the US, it reveals the challenge that lies ahead for policymakers: namely, to follow China's development ever more closely, to determine whether it could come to see the costs of military conflict as outweighing the benefits of peaceful trade and economic growth
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