BOOK REVIEW: Under Bejing’s Shadow

Southeast Asia’s China Challenge, by Murray Hiebert, Rowman & Littlefield, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC. 590 pages. Hard cover, US$40.

There have been several recent books on China and Southeast Asia. Murray Hiebert’s stands out for the thoroughness of its reporting of recent issues in China’s struggle for the hearts and minds of its southeastern neighbors whether by use of the soft power of friendly persuasion, harder power in the form of hard cash, and the seriously hard power of an …