, March/April 2012,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137245/henry-a-kissinger/the-future-of-us-chinese-relations
.
8.
David Smith, “Hillary Clinton Launches African Tour with Veiled Attack on China,”
Guardian
, August 1, 2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/01/hillary-clinton-africa-china
.
9.
Aaron Friedberg,
A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
(New York: Norton, 2011).
10.
Arvind Subramanian,
Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance
(Washington, DC: Institute of International Economics, 2012); Martin Jacques,
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
, 2nd ed. (New York: Penguin Press, 2012).
11.
Zachary Karabell,
Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009); Robyn Meredith,
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
(New York: Norton, 2007); Nicholas Lardy,
Sustaining China’s Economic Growth After the Global Financial Crisis
(Washington, DC: Peterson Institute, 2012).
12.
Kathrin Hille, “Clinton Struggles to Soothe Beijing’s Fears,”
Financial Times
, September 5, 2012,
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9b296eec-f728-11e1-8e9e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz25abzfG2p
.
13.
Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell, “How China Sees America,”
Foreign Affairs
, September/October 2012,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138009/andrew-j-nathan-and-andrew-scobell/how-china-sees-america?page=show
; Robert Ross, “The Problem with the Pivot,”
Foreign Affairs
, November/December 2012, pp. 70–82.
14.
Thom Shanker, “Panetta Set to Discuss U.S. Shift in Asia Trip,”
New York Times
, September 14, 2012, p. A4.
15.
Kissinger, “Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations.”
16.
Henry M. Kissinger,
On China
(New York: Penguin Press, 2012), pp. 487–530; Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
(New York: Basic Books, 2012), pp. 155–82.
17.
Daniel Yergin,
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Making of the Modern World
(New York: Penguin Press, 2011), p. 222.
18.
Rebecca M. Nelson, Mary Jane Bolle, and Shayerah Ilias,
U.S. Trade and Investment in the Middle East and North Africa: Overview and
Issues for Congress
, Congressional Research Service report, January 20, 2012,
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/183739.pdf
.
19.
Direction of Trade Statistics Yearbook, 2011
(Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2011),
http://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/IMF042/11827-9781616351489/11827-9781616351489/11827-9781616351489.xml?rskey=J2QZQv&result=1&q=Direction%20of%20Trade%20Statistics%20Yearbook,%202011
.
20.
Qian Xuewen, “Sino-Arab Economic Trade and Cooperation: Situations, Tasks, Issues, and Strategies,”
Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
5, no. 4 (2011): 68.
21.
Kissinger, “Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations.”
22.
Bernard Gordon, “Trading Up in Asia,”
Foreign Affairs
, July/August 2012,
www.foreignaffairs.com/print/134960
.
23.
Jane Perlez, “Clinton Makes Effort to Rechannel the Rivalry with China,”
New York Times
, July 8, 2012, p. A7.
24.
Joseph Nye, “Energy Independence in an Interdependent World,”
Project Syndicate
, July 11, 2012,
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/energy-independence-in-an-interdependent-world
.
25.
“China to Build $2bn Railway for Iran,”
Telegraph
, September 7, 2010,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7985812/China-to-build-2bn-railway-for-Iran.html
.
26.
Myles Smith, “China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Project Brings Political Risks,”
Central Asia Institute Analyst
, Johns Hopkins University, March 7, 2012,
http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/5731
.
27.
“Turkey, China Sign Two Nuclear Agreements During PM’s Visit,”
Daily Hurriyet
, April 10, 2012,
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-china-sign-two-nuclear-agreements-during-pms-visit.aspx?pageID=238&nID=18032&NewsCatID=348
. This article puts the 2010 trade figures at $19.5 billion; TUSIAD in Beijing puts the 2012 figures at $25 billion.
28.
Interviews with oil executives investing in Iraq, and with Turkish Kurdish Regional Government officials, August and September 2012.
29.
Kent Calder,
The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. xxxi–xxxii.
30.
Yergin,
Quest
, p. 210.
31.
James Fallows,
China Airborne
(New York: Pantheon, 2012), p. 98.
32.
Yergin,
Quest
, p. 172.
33.
Robert Kaplan, “Center Stage for the 21st Century: Power Plays in the Indian Ocean,”
Foreign Affairs
, April/May 2009,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/64832
.
34.
Preparing for China’s Urban Billion
(San Francisco: McKinsey Global Institute, 2009), p. 18, cited in Fallows,
China Airborne
, p. 101.
35.
John Lee, “China’s Geostrategic Search for Oil,”
Washington Quarterly
35, no. 3 (Summer 2012): 75–92.
36.
Steve Coll,
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
(New York: Penguin Press, 2012), p. 240.
37.
Ibid., pp. 240–41.
38.
Yergin,
Quest
, pp. 222–23.
39.
Kalder,
The New Continentalism
, p. 3.
40.
John Mearsheimer,
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
(New York: Norton, 2001), pp. 360–402.
41.
Coll,
Private Empire
, p. 243.
42.
Robert Kaplan,
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
(New York: Random House, 2010).
43.
Kalder,
New Continentalism
, p. 36.
44.
Farhan Bokhari and Kathrin Hille, “Pakistan in Talks to Hand Port to China,”
Financial Times
, August 31, 2012,
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5c58608c-f2a6-11e1-ac41-00144feabdc0.html#axzz25gV7a6Qn
.
45.
Kalder,
New Continentalism
, pp. xxxi–xxxiii.
46.
Robert Kaplan, “The Geography of Chinese Power,”
Foreign Affairs
, May/June, 2010,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66205/robert-d-kaplan/the-geography-of-chinese-power?page=4
.