China’s Big Power Ambition under Xi Jinping : Narratives and Driving Forces (Hardcover)

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 Suisheng Zhao 2. China’s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi Jinping Yi Edward Yang 3. China’s Belt and Road Initiative as Nascent World Order Structure and Concept? Between Sino-Centering and Sino-Deflecting Ray Silvius 4. Co-evolutionary Pragmatism: Re-examine ‘China Model’ and Its Impact on Developing Countries Tang Xiaoyang 5. From ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Peacebuilder? How Evolving Chinese Discourses and Self-perceptions Impact Its Growing Influence in Conflict Societies Pascal Abb 6. Business is Business: How Does Trade Relationship Fail to Boost Image of China? Narisong Huhe and Min Tang Domestic Political Economy 7. Party-state Realism: A Framework for Understanding China’s Approach to Foreign Policy Steve Tsang 8. The Rationale and Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Domestic Political Economy Hongyi Lai 9. Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals Yao Lin 10. Why Do Chinese Democrats Tend to Be More Nationalistic? Explaining Popular Nationalism in Urban China Yang Zhong and Wonjae Hwang 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 Jean-Pierre Cabestan 12. China’s Response to Threats to its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony Yizheng Zou and Lee Jones 13. Constructing a U.S.-China Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific and Beyond Andrew Scobell 14. Chinese Multinational Enterprises Operating in Western Economies: Huawei in the US and the UK Xin Liu 15. The Tenuous Co-Production of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Brazil and Latin America Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira and Margaret Myers 16. A Role Model for Africa or Exceptional Engagement? Assessing China’s South Sudan Experience Malte Brosig