China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy, China has established productive and increasingly solid relationships throughout Asia and around the globe. Yet U.S. policymakers are still trying to comprehend these critical changes. Rising Star provides a coherent framework for understanding China's new security diplomacy and guiding America's China policy.
Bates Gill has completely updated his original analysis, focusing on Chinese policy in three areas: regional security mechanisms, nonproliferation and arms control, and questions of sovereignty and intervention. Looking to the future, he offers specific recommendations for a balanced and realistic approach that emphasizes what China and the United States have in common, rather than what divides them. The main arguments and recommendations of the original book continue to hold true and, in many respects, are more compelling now than ever before given China's continued ascendancy.

"[Gill's] analysis is based on solid research and deep knowledge of Chinese thought
and behavior, and when the Chinese fail to meet his standards for constructive
behavior, he does not hesitate to take them to task for it." — Foreign Affairs

"This is a significant book. It pulls together a comprehensive argument that only lies
scattered in a multiplicity of other places. Gill's concluding policy recommendations
are balanced and sound." —David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins University–SAIS

"This important study is clearly organized, well written, and well documented; it is
sure to be read widely." — Journal of Asian Studies

Bates Gill is director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He was formerly the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Security and International Studies, and he was the first director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.