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China is in the process of transforming itself from being a Leninist state to seeking the role of a major power. It sees three global trends as dominant: economics in command; a declining West and a rising Asia; and a fluid international environment. Towards the United States, the PRC prepares for a path of cooperation combined with contention, recognizing that the US, whatever its problems, is important to China both economically and strategically. China's relations with Japan are better than at any time in this century, yet past suspicions combine with regional rivalries to suggest a delicate future relationship. PRC relations with Russia, passing through many stages since 1989, are improving but will remain volatile, with trust minimal. Relations with China's small neighbours are generally good, but the perception of a rising Chinese nationalism now permeates the area. Further, the issue of China's "lost empire" remains an intriguing subject. In the final analysis, PRC's foreign policy will be profoundly influenced by both its domestic evolution and trends governing the other major Pacific Asian nations. Beijing has reason for satisfaction but not complacency. (AJPS/DÜI)

In the course of the 20th century, the world's inhabitants have shared one fate in common. Sooner or later, they and their society have been plunged into the maelstrom of accelerating change, an upheaval at the root of which are the explosive developments in science and technology. The global revolution has unfolded in different ways, and has had diverse ideological underpinnings, structural attributes and institutional foundations. Other variables of great significance are timing and leadership. The timing of the revolutionary effort together with the stage of preparation on the part of the society involved have had a major influence in determining the degree of coercion likely to be employed. If a reluctant, ill-prepared society is pulled into modernity largely against its will, significant force has often been required, although the creation of a new faith through intensive ideological indoctrination has reduced the quotient of coercion in certain instances. Timing has also determined the develop-mental models available as well as the prevailing ideological currents, and hence the influences likely to carry the greatest weight with elites committed to change.

The author believes that future historians will see the opening decades of Chinese communist rule as a time when China unified to a degree not previously known. Using power in its fullest sense, including Leninist organizational techniques and an ideological mix of Marxism and nationalism, a new degree of cohesion was achieved in this ancient land. He describes and analyses economic and political problems in China in the late Leninist era (since 1978) and looks at the significance of Greater China, China's foreign relations and its relations with Taiwan. (DÜI-Sen)

The author looks at the prospects for co-operation in Northeast Asia with specific reference to the emergence of a soft regionalism in this region, Leninism, authoritarian-pluralism, a one and one-half party systems in Northeast Asia and its security environment. He believes that the greatest challenge to the region may come in the economic arena. (DÜI-Sen)

Relationship between unwritten traditional rules and formal institutions in the Leninist, authoritarian-pluralist, and democratic Asian states; leadership factors.