Regional Systems in History: Pax Sinica and the Japanese Sphere of East Asian Coprosperity

Yong Deng
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Yong Deng: Benedictine University

Chapter 2 in Promoting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, 1997, pp 10-27 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Three regional orders are said to have existed in East Asia prior to the end of the Second World War.1 One was largely a function of the US Open Door policy. It was in effect more a balancing act centring around the US attempt to bring about some order in East Asia, particularly through the 1921–22 Washington Conference. But ‘the spirit of the Washington Conference’, which committed major regional powers to a cooperative arrangement, quickly dissipated under the onslaught of fervent Chinese nationalism, ‘Japanese unilateralism’ and the emerging communism in the Soviet Russia.2 The multilateral diplomacy of the 1920s and 1930s ultimately failed to stop Japanese imperialism and pre-vent the outbreak of the Pacific War. This failed attempt may have some significant implications for contemporary discussions of regional security arrangements, but does not seem to be particularly relevant for the recent attempt to form multilateral economic regimes in the Asia-Pacific region.

Keywords: Chinese Student; Ming Dynasty; Western Power; Tribute System; Chinese Nationalist (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230380127_2

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