Asia-Pacific Secondary States as Kingmakers : Alignment Roles in the China-US Strategic Competition (Hardcover)

1. Introduction

2. Status Quo of Instability, the China-US Strategic Competition, and China’s Challenge to the Status Quo

3. Geostrategic Linchpins and Kingmaking

4. Japan: Supplementing the Balance as Washington’s Cornerstone

5. South Korea: Facing up to the Kingmaker’s Role as Northeast Asia’s Linchpin

6. The Philippines: Dodging the Kingmaker’s Role as Southeast Asia’s Oscillating Linchpin

7. Vietnam: Maintaining Space to Hedge and Resisting the Kingmaker’s Role with Stopgaps?

8. Conclusion