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Hedging Against China: Japanese Strategy Towards A Rising Power
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Debates about how states deal with rising powers have been mainly concentrated on a continuum comprising on balancing and bandwagoning strategies. While theory has principally offered realist and liberal explanations, Japanese behavior vis-à-vis China does not match with them. Japan is not powerful enough to balance against China but remains too strong to bandwagon. Accordingly, Tokyo is pursuing a mixed strategy of both containment and engagement, which may be better described as a hedging strategy against Beijing. This article analyzes which strategies states can adopt when dealing with a rising power and proposes a framework to analyze Japan's recent policy towards China based on Kuik's analysis. We argue that Japan's hedging strategy towards China is consistent with how middle-power states deal with rising power.
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LÓPEZ I VIDAL, Lluc and PELEGRÍN SOLÉ, Àngels. Hedging Against China: Japanese Strategy Towards A Rising Power. Asian Security. 2018. Vol. 14, num. 2, pags. 193-211. ISSN 1479-9855. [consulted: 7 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/125428