China's Strategic Opportunity
Change and Revisionism in Chinese Foreign Policy

This book provides a systematic account of China's great-power diplomacy launched under President Xi Jinping's reframed 'strategic opportunity' approach.

Yong Deng (Author)

9781009098694, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 August 2022

280 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg

'Building on his path-breaking work on status, Deng Yong explains how China views its strategic opportunity to move to 'center stage'. Reviewing major developments in Xi Jinping's foreign policy since 2012, Deng shows how China uses economic globalization to influence other states, attain global leadership, and overcome obstacles posed by the liberal world order.' Deborah Welch Larson, Co-author of Quest for Status: Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy

This book offers a systematic study of China's great-power diplomacy under President Xi Jinping. It critically applies the Chinese concept of 'strategic opportunity', which is defined by the national ambitions as set by the ruling communist party leadership, the opportunities and risks presented in the international environment, and the policy instruments at the nation's disposal. Applying the dynamic concept, the book identifies key Chinese beliefs that seek to best match its resources with its policy ends and investigates policy patterns in China's management of competition with the United States, the Belt and Road Initiative, economic statecraft, regional and global institutional orders, and its multipolar diplomacy. Taking seriously China's choice, Yong Deng challenges the mainstream structural analysis in International Relations that focuses merely on rising powers' insecurity and discontent in the international system. His study shows how the world's leading contender to, and major stakeholder in, the world order actually evaluates, and actively seeks to control, its international environment.

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. Institutional tactics
6. Multipolarity and EU
7. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], International relations [JPS], Marxism & Communism [JPFC], Political science & theory [JPA]