Geopolitics and China's Patronage Strategy: The Wary Patron, the Autonomous Client, and the Vietnam War

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China’s patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

By combining for the first time the limit of great power patrons’ resources and the agency of client countries, this book accentuates that the costs and uncertainty require China to be a wary patron who must adjust its patronage priorities in order to deal with geopolitical competition. Using China’s patronage delivery to North Vietnam during the f...