Book contents
- China’s Strategic Opportunity
- China’s Strategic Opportunity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Strategic Opportunity and China’s Foreign Policy
- 2 The Onset of Great-Power Competition
- 3 Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative
- 4 Economic Statecraft
- 5 The Institutional Tactics
- 6 Multipolarity and the European Union
- 7 Conclusion
- Index
7 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2022
Book contents
- China’s Strategic Opportunity
- China’s Strategic Opportunity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Strategic Opportunity and China’s Foreign Policy
- 2 The Onset of Great-Power Competition
- 3 Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative
- 4 Economic Statecraft
- 5 The Institutional Tactics
- 6 Multipolarity and the European Union
- 7 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
The chapter summarizes the salient patterns of China’s major-power diplomacy under President Xi Jinping and highlights how it differs from the development-driven, low-profile strategy of the previous era under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. It then discusses how Chinese diplomacy struggles to balance a policy of seeking change within the global order and a revionisim risking a cold or a hot war. The next section addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic tested China’s strategic opportunity. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the theoretical and policy implications of the study.
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- China's Strategic OpportunityChange and Revisionism in Chinese Foreign Policy, pp. 207 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022