China is rising, along with worldwide concern over the strategic implications of growing
Chinese power. Among US scholars, those who argue for engagement focus on the …

Engaging the recent debate on China's assertive foreign policy, we suggest that it is normal
for China–a rising power–to change its policy to a confident or even assertive direction …

This article reviews China's position in international society over the past couple of
centuries, and against that background assesses the prospects for China's strategy of …

The Chinese people, President Xi Jinping proclaimed in 2016," are fully confident in offering
a China solution to humanity's search for better social systems." A year later, he declared …

China's unprecedented economic growth led some scholars to conclude that it will replace
the United States as the future global hegemon. However, China's intentions in exercising …

Something profound seems to have occurred in Chinese foreign policy since the global
financial crisis starting in 2007–08. Many have noted an assertive and nationalist Chinese …

China has frequently been depicted by some observers as an assertive rising power.
However, assertiveness is neither a theoretically rigorous nor empirically useful term. The …

Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension
of China's increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China's rise, including its …

As China's power steadily rises, mutual role expectations between China and the United
States become increasingly unstable. To ensure a mutually agreeable role for China …

The United States has been the most powerful state on the planet for many decades and has
deployed robust military forces in the Asia-Pacific region since the early years of the Second …