We are pleased to announce the publication of Asian Perspective, volume 48, number 4 (Fall 2024), published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University and made available online at Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53752).

In this issue, authors discuss China’s cooperation in the electric vehicle market with Gulf Council States; China-US relations as viewed by the Chinese public and from the multiple perspectives surrounding the IR debate on their great power relations; dualism in Vietnam’s historical diplomatic interactions with China; Australia’s ‘South China Sea’ policy amid the growing great power rivalry; how change rather than continuity represents Japan’s security policy tradition; and the meaning, issues, and implications behind North Korea’s fundamental policy shift toward South Korea and Korean unification.

In the issue’s Book Symposium section, invited scholars critique Sumit Ganguly, Manjeet S. Pardesi, and William R. Thompson’s The Sino-India Rivalry: Implications for the Global Order (Cambridge University Press, 2023)—a monumental work that traces the history of the Sino-Indian contest as a strategic rivalry.

All back issues of the journal (from 1977 to 2024), including past special issues, are also available at Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/733).

ASIAN PERSPECTIVE

VOL. 48, NO. 4, FALL 2024

China and Gulf Council States

Electric Vehicle Market:

A New Arena for Cooperation between China and Gulf Cooperation Council States

Mordechai Chaziza

China and the United States

Living with the Global Hegemon:

How the Chinese Public Views the United States

Yida Zhai

US-China Relations in Retrospect:

Revisiting the Debate or Realists, Liberals, and Constructivists

Brian C.H. Fong

Vietnam-China Relations

Dualism in Vietnam-China Relations:

Vietnam’s Diplomatic Interactions with Chinese Envoys from the 10^th to the 19^th Century

Nguyen Thi My Hanh

Security Policy in Asia

Role and Threat:

An Assessment of Australia’s South China Sea Policy Amid Great Power Rivalry

Shuqi Wang

Why Change Prevails over Continuity?

Critical Junctures, Motivations, Cognitions, and Temporals in Japanese Security Policy Tradition

Sam-Sang Jo

The Two Koreas

Why Did Kim Jong-un Delete Unification?

Issues and Implications of North Korea’s Position on ‘Hostile Relations Between Two States’

Kap-sik Kim

BOOK SYMPOSIUM

Book Symposium on Sumit Ganguly, Manjeet S Pardesi, and William R Thompson. 2023. The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for the Global Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 246 pp

Manoj Joshi

Jingdong Yuan

Mahesh Shankar

Sumit Ganguly, Manjeet S. Pardesi, and William R. Thompson