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This paper is a preliminary study of Chinese considerations of China’s “economic security”, a notion that gained currency in China-based Chinese scholars’ research on China’s international relations in the 1990s. Among other things, such considerations reflect Chinese scholars’ acceptance of Western Realist/Nationalist convictions about the international political economy. The paper also finds that Chinese concerns about what the international political-economic environment holds for China’s approach to national greatness through economic growth by continuing to interact with the rest of the world, while not unfounded, are more ideology-driven than fact-based. This tendency contrasts sharply with Japanese notions of “economic security,” which have greatly influenced industrial restructuring in Japan and Japan’s international economic/security policies Japan since the term came into being in the 1970s.
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The author wishes to thank the two anonymous reviewers, Leszek Buszynski, Shiping Hua, Edward Friedman, John Rapp, and Takuji Shimano for their comments on the previous draft and research support.
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Zha, D. Chinese considerations of "economic security". J OF CHIN POLIT SCI 5, 69–87 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02876853
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