China's Global Engagement

Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century

Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9780815744351
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Assessing China's rapidly changing role on the international stage
China is again undergoing a period of significant transition. Internally, China's leaders are addressing challenges to the economy and other domestic issues after three decades of dramatic growth and reforms. President Xi Jinping and other leaders also are refashioning foreign policy to better fit what they see as China's place in the world. This has included a more proactive approach to trade and related international economic affairs, a more vigorous approach to security matters, and a more focused engagement on international cultural and educational affairs.
In this volume, China specialists from around the world explore key issues raised by a changing China's interaction with a changing world. They chronicle China's emergence as a more capable actor whose engagement is reshaping international affairs in many dimensions. These include: global currency and trading systems; patterns of cooperation and competition in technological innovation; economic and political trends in the developing world; the American-led security order in the Asia-Pacific region; the practice of international military and humanitarian intervention; the use of naval power; the role of international law in persistent territorial and maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas; the international human rights regime; the circulation of Chinese talent trained abroad; a more globalized film industry; and programs to reshape global cultural awareness about China through educational initiatives.
Across these diverse areas, China's capacity—and desire—to influence events and outcomes have risen markedly. The results so far are mixed, and the future trajectory remains uncertain. But across the wide range of issues addressed in this book, China has become a major and likely an enduring participant.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• A Rising China's Growing Presence: The Challenges of Global Engagement
• True Revisionist: China and the Global Monetary System
• Rising Nationalism: China's Regulation of Investment Trade
• Team of Rivals: China, the United States, and the Race to Develop Technologies for a Sustainable Energy Future
• Concentrated Interests: China's Involvement with Latin American Economies
• Competing Visions: China, America, and the Asia-Pacific Security Order
• Is There Something Beyond No? China and Intervention in a New Era
• The Rise of the Chinese Navy: From Regional Naval Power to Global Naval Power?
• China's Territorial and Maritime Disputes in the South and East China Seas: What Role for International Law?
• China and the International Human Rights Legal Regime: Orthodoxy, Resistance, and Legitimacy
• Leaders, Bureaucrats, and Institutional Culture: The Struggle to Bring Back China's Top Overseas Talent
• The Chinese Dream in Popular Culture: China as Producer and Consumer of Films at Home and Abroad
• Chinese Culture in a Global Context: The Confucius Institute as a Geo-Cultural Force
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover