In 1990, China, rich in natural resources but short on technology and managerial skills, offers enormous potential for trade and economic cooperation with the EC. Japan, the most successful non-Western modernizer, is making a heavy investment in EC industries. What will be the outcome for Europe and the Far East? And for Europe and the rest of the world? For the world balance of power in the twenty-first century? These are some of the questions which this book seeks to answer.

First published in 1990, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Dr. Taylor is Senior Reserach felloe at the centre for japanese Studies at the University of Stirling. His previous book was 'The Sino-Hapanese Axis: A New Force in Asia?' (Athlone, 1985)