Proceedings from the conference "China and Asia: Towards a New Regional Order," convened in December 2003 at The George Washington University"--Acknowledgments.

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Introduction: the rise of China and Asia's new dynamics / David Shambaugh -- Return to the middle kingdom?: China and Asia in the early twenty-first century / David Shambaugh -- China's regional strategy / Zhang Yunling and Tang Shiping -- China's regional trade and investment profile / Hideo Ohashi -- China's regional economies and the Asian region: building interdependent linkages / Robert F. Ash -- China-Japan relations: downward spiral or a new equilibrium? / Mike M. Mochizuki -- China's ascendancy and the Korean peninsula: from interest reevaluation to strategic realignment? / Jae Ho Chung -- Taiwan faces China: attraction and repulsion / Richard Bush -- China and Southeast Asia: the context of a new beginning / Wang Gungwu -- China's influence in Central and South Asia: is it increasing? / John W. Garver -- China and Russia: normalizing their strategic partnership / Yu Bin -- China's evolving regional security strategy / Bates Gill -- China's regional military posture / Michael D. Swaine -- China's regional strategy and why it may not be good for America / Robert Sutter -- China's rise in Asia need not be at America's expense / David M. Lampton -- The transformation of the Asian security order: assessing China's impact / Jonathan D. Pollack -- The evolving Asian order: the accommodation of rising Chinese power / Michael Yahuda.