Abstract
This article tackles the question: has China become more proactive and willing to resolve regional problems unilaterally, bilaterally or multilaterally? It suggests that, while China has clearly become more proactive in facilitating regional stability and co-operation, it still has to overcome certain perceptual hurdles and constrain its impulse to be the ‘centre’ of the world. Consisting of three sections, this article first discusses the nexus between post-Mao China's ‘new’ diplomacy and Beijing's proactive posture towards Asia and notes the troublesome nature of the regional dynamics in Northeast Asia. It then explores three case studies in which China's activism has varied in resolving intricate regional and inter-state problems: namely, Sino—Japanese discord, the Koguryo controversy between South Korea and China and the North Korean nuclear conundrum. The final section offers some concluding observations regarding China's diplomacy towards Northeast Asia.
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