1st Edition
Chinese Foreign Policy in the Era of Great Power Competition Global Engagement and Strategic Entanglement
Introduction: China’s Power Ambition, Strategic Tangling and Evolving Global Reach
Suisheng Zhao
Part I: Reframing China’s Major Power Relations: Competition and Cooperation
1. Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: Can Regular Communication Reverse the Prolonged Crisis in the U.S.-China Relationship?
Suisheng Zhao
2. The U.S.-China trade war: Who is more injured?
Lixia Wang, Lin Sha, Yingqian Gu and Fangyuan Guo
3. The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys
Lisheng Dong, Su Yun Woo and Daniel Kübler
4. The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU
Anne-Marie Dedene
Part II: Strategic Tangling: China and the Russo-Ukrainian War
5. Empowerment Versus Entrapment: Beijing’s International Anti-Hegemonic United Front Strategy Amid Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Suisheng Zhao
6. Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Rebekka Åsnes Sagild and Christopher Weidacher Hsiung
7. Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War
Vita Golod and Olga Drobotiuk
Part III: Periphery Security and Regional Influence
8. Amity, Security, Influence: Explaining China’s Policy Toward Afghanistan, 1949-2024
Feng Zhang
9. China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands
Selina Ho, Xue Gong, Carla P. Freeman
10. Rare Earth and Resource Nationalism: What Happened Before and After China’s Embargo on Japan?
Florence W. Yang
11. Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia
Edward Lemon, Bradley Jardine and Lucas Peters
Part IV: Global South Engagement and Leadership Claims
12. Is there a Chinese “Developmental peace”? Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact on Conflict States
Pascal Abb
13. Can The BRI Deliver High-Quality Development? A Multi-Actor Analysis of China’s Overseas Economic Zones
Zeying Wu and Min Ye
14. Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council
Hao Wu
15. China's Economic Diplomacy Towards the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Mordechai Chaziza
Biography
Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. He is the founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author and editor of over two dozen books and hundreds of academic articles.
