How has America responded to Chinas rise? What is the China factor in Americas major decisions for the next decade? Whats at stake for America across our government, economy and society? Eric Heikkila gives fine analyses on a vast scale. Given the Chinese juggernaut, and its impacts on the American economy and government, this book is essential reading for understanding China, and ourselves, in the next decade and more.
Glenn Shive, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The U.S. and China are intertwined in ways unimaginable twenty, let alone forty years ago. Prof. Heikkilas new book helps us understand the many ways that Chinas rise affects the U.S. and the ways the two governments interact. Anyone interested in this vital relationship and how its evolution will affect both countries and the world at large will benefit from reading this important book.
Clayton Dube, Executive Director, USChina Institute,University of Southern California
CHINA FROM A U.S. POLICY PERSPECTIVE
In this book, Eric J. Heikkila explores a truly important question that has not been adequately analyzed to date: how the rise of China alters the context in which the broad spectrum of policies in the United States should be assessed. Here, the policy domain of the U.S. government is carved into three broad spheres:
economic policies: fiscal policy and deficits, trade policy, and employment and income
sustainability policies: climate change, urban policy, and energy policy
geopolitical policies: homeland security, defense policy, and foreign relations.
For each domain, Heikkila assesses the key policy issues and tradeoffs, examining how the balance of such tradeoffs shifts due to Chinas rise. In doing so, he demonstrates how a rising China exerts its gravitation pull on U.S. policy, not so much through lobbying or negotiation, but through the very nature of its being. A concluding chapter presents a workable synthesis derived from these diverse perspectives.
At a time of increasing tensions, it is all the more important for U.S. policy makers to focus on the many substantive policy questions that are impacted by Chinas rise. China from a U.S. Policy Perspective will be of key interest to scholars, practitioners, and students of policy analysis, U.S. politics, Chinese politics, and International Relations.
Eric J. Heikkila is a Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he also serves on the Executive Committee of the USC USChina Institute. Dr. Heikkila is the founding Executive Secretary of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban Development, and has had visiting appointments at Peking University, National Taiwan University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Trained initially as an economist, he has a strong record of scholarly publications in urban development and public policy, many with a focus on China. As Director of Global Engagement for the USC Price School of Public Policy, he helped maintain institutional ties with partner institutions in China and elsewhere.
CHINA FROM A U.S. POLICY PERSPECTIVE
Eric J. Heikkila
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Names: Heikkila, Eric John, author.
Title: China from a U.S. policy perspective / Eric J. Heikkila.
Other titles: China from a United States policy perspective
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020014807 (print) | LCCN 2020014808 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367897970 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367897963 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003021209 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000174021 (adobe pdf) |
ISBN 9781000174052 (mobi) | ISBN 9781000174083 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: United StatesForeign relationsChina. | China
Foreign relationsUnited States. | United StatesEconomic policy. |
United StatesEnergy policy. | United StatesMilitary policy. |
ChinaStrategic aspects.
Classification: LCC E183.8.C5 H45 2020 (print) | LCC E183.8.C5 (ebook) | DDC 327.73051dc23
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To my father, Walter Heikkila, whose auroral arc will always inspire
CONTENTS
Some years ago (more than I care to confess), I was participating in an Executive Committee meeting of the U.S.China Institute at my home institution, the University of Southern California. Chaired by Dr. Clayton Dube, our committee members had diverse disciplinary interests, but we were all drawn together by a shared interest in the U.S.China relationship. One member of our committee was participating via video call from Washington, DC, where he told us about the excellent conference room and other facilities that USC maintained there. Stimulated by this news, I began to reflect upon how our Institute might make use of this fine facility, noting that so many U.S. federal departments had an interest in China. Expounding upon this further, I suggested that we could perhaps organize a seminar series that drew upon federal officials with appropriate interests and expertise. My fellow committee members responded politely but non-committally, and we moved on to the next agenda items. It dawned on me that if it was going to happen, I should be the one to do it after all, I was the sole person on the committee who was billed as a professor of public policy. I was in no position to expect someone else to do it if I would not do so myself.
I then set about putting together a graduate seminar as a special topics course. Even then, I was thinking that if the course went well, I might consider undertaking a book project along the same lines. I was fortunate that this seminar drew a really special group of graduate students who dug into the topics with enthusiasm and acumen. By the time the semester was over, I had decided to take the plunge. I continued to offer the course on a fairly regular basis over subsequent years. Initially, the course readings, lectures, and discussions helped me to frame the ideas in the book. Once the book had gotten well underway, it in turn supported my teaching of the course. I feel confident that many people may learn a great deal by reading this book, but I am certain that no one will learn as much from reading it as I have learned from writing it. It has been a most valuable endeavor. I am grateful to many people who helped and encouraged me along the way, as amplified in the Acknowledgments.
