Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World

China's rise as a global actor has significant global implications, with its actions affecting nearly every region and major issue. A project by Brookings scholars aims to provide policy makers and the public with hard facts and deep insights to understand China's regional and global ambitions. The initiative draws on the institution's deep bench of China and East Asia experts, as well as its 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.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 428 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2021
Publisher: Brookings Institution

The global implications of China's rise as a global actor have been a topic of discussion for many years. 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.

Weight: 702g
Dimension: 159 x 230 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780815739166