China's Grand Strategy: A Roadmap to Global Power?
David B. H. Denoon
Abstract
China’s dramatic rise on the world stage was evident by the final decade of the twentieth century. In the period from 1979 to 2008, China played a low-key role, emphasizing economic growth and cooperative relations with other countries. Since the global recession of 2008–09, however, China has been more aggressive in both its economic and foreign policy. The goal of this volume is to assess China’s intentions and to evaluate what the Chinese leadership hopes to achieve by actions such as occupying the atolls in the South China Sea and implementing its massive aid program, the Belt and Road Ini ... More
China’s dramatic rise on the world stage was evident by the final decade of the twentieth century. In the period from 1979 to 2008, China played a low-key role, emphasizing economic growth and cooperative relations with other countries. Since the global recession of 2008–09, however, China has been more aggressive in both its economic and foreign policy. The goal of this volume is to assess China’s intentions and to evaluate what the Chinese leadership hopes to achieve by actions such as occupying the atolls in the South China Sea and implementing its massive aid program, the Belt and Road Initiative. The volume includes authors with varying perspectives on China’s intentions, allowing the reader to compare competing viewpoints on China’s plans.
Keywords:
Belt and Road Initiative,
Chinese economic policy,
Chinese foreign policy,
global recession of 2008–09,
grand strategy,
South China Sea
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781479804085 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: January 2022 |
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479804085.001.0001 |
