China's Big Power Ambition Under XI Jinping: Narratives and Driving Forces

ISBN-13: 9781032057217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 276 str.

Zhao, Suisheng

Opis

This collection focuses on two sets of forces. One is China’s domestic politics and economic incentives and disincentives. The other is China’s geo-political and geo-economic interests. These forces have both motivated and constrained China’s big power ambition.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Narratives  1. Rhetoric and Reality of China’s Global Leadership in the Context of COVID-19: Implications to the US-led World Order and Liberal Globalization  2. China’s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi Jinping  3. China’s Belt and Road Initiative as Nascent World Order Structure and Concept? Between Sino-Centering and Sino-Deflecting  4. Co-evolutionary Pragmatism: Re-examine ‘China Model’ and Its Impact on Developing Countries  5. From ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Peacebuilder? How Evolving Chinese Discourses and Self-perceptions Impact Its Growing Influence in Conflict Societies  6. Business is Business: How Does Trade Relationship Fail to Boost Image of China?  Part 2: Domestic Political Economy  7. Party-state Realism: A Framework for Understanding China’s Approach to Foreign Policy  8. The Rationale and Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Domestic Political Economy  9. Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals  10. Why Do Chinese Democrats Tend to Be More Nationalistic? Explaining Popular Nationalism in Urban China  Part 3: Geopolitics and Geo-Economics  11. China’s Military Base in Djibouti: A Microcosm of China’s Growing Competition with the United States and New Bipolarity  12. China’s Response to Threats to its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony  13. Constructing a U.S.-China Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific and Beyond  14. Chinese Multinational Enterprises Operating in Western Economies: Huawei in the US and the UK  15. The Tenuous Co-Production of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Brazil and Latin America  16. A Role Model for Africa or Exceptional Engagement? Assessing China’s South Sudan Experience 

O autorze

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and Founding Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.