Global China

Assessing China's Growing Role in the World

Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9780815741626
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The global implications of China's rise as a global actor
In 2005, a senior official in the George W. Bush administration expressed the hope that China would emerge as a "responsible stakeholder" on the world stage. A dozen years later, the Trump administration dramatically shifted course, instead calling China a "strategic competitor" whose actions routinely threaten U.S. interests.
Both assessments reflected an underlying truth: China is no longer just a "rising" power. It has emerged as a truly global actor, both economically and militarily. Every day its actions affect nearly every region and every major issue, from climate change to trade, from conflict in troubled lands to competition over rules that will govern the uses of emerging technologies.
To better address the implications of China's new status, both for American policy and for the broader international order, Brookings scholars conducted research over the past two years, culminating in a project: Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World. The project is intended to furnish policy makers and the public with hard facts and deep insights for understanding China's regional and global ambitions.
The initiative draws not only on Brookings's deep bench of China and East Asia experts, but also on the tremendous breadth of the institution's security, strategy, regional studies, technological, and economic development experts.
Areas of focus include the evolution of China's domestic institutions; great power relations; the emergence of critical technologies; Asian security; China's influence in key regions beyond Asia; and China's impact on global governance and norms.
Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World provides the most current, broad-scope, and fact-based assessment of the implications of China's rise for the United States and the rest of the world.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section 1: Domestic Politics: How have Xi Jinping's Rise and Ambitions Shaped China's Foreigh Policy?
• Section 2: East Asia: How Is China Seeking to Reshape the Status Quo across East Asia's Hotspots, and How Are States within the Region Responding?
• Section 3: Great Powers: How Are the World's Great Powers Maneuvering amid U.S.-China Rivalry, and Is the International System Increasingly Bipolar or Multipolar?
• Section 4: Technology: China Aspires to Global Technology Leadership. Can It Achieve Its Ambition? What Would the Impacts Be at Home and Abroad?
• Section 5: Regional Influence and Strategy: China Now Touchs Virtually Every Region in the World—How Is China's Increasing Involvement Impacting South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Elsewhere?
• Section 6: The Global Economy: How Is China's Rise Reshaping Global Economic Institutions and Affecting Progress on Goals Like Poverty and Climate?
• Section 7: Global Governance: How Is China Reshaping Global Governance, Human Rights Norms, and International Institutions?
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover