China: strategy, influence and power
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As the world’s largest trading power and greatest source of global lending, China already occupies a central position on the international stage. It boasts the world’s largest population and military, and has become a global centre of innovation. Most analysts predict that China’s GDP at market exchange rates will exceed that of the USA by 2030, making it the largest economy in the world. How China responds to shared global challenges increasingly has profound implications for the rest of the world, as evidenced by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since the early 2010s, as China’s economic and military clout has grown, so too has its ambition and ability to shape the global governance system to align with its priorities and values. The country has taken on a bigger role in international institutions, been more vocal about its increasing influence, and begun to lay the groundwork to establish its own institutions and ambitious projects, notably the Belt and Road Initiative.
Many analysts continue to question whether Beijing’s longer term objective is to bring into being a radically transformed international order—or to simply push for adjustments to the current one, advancing interests and preferences without fundamentally transforming the global system and transnational institutions.
This Collection aims to analyse China’s current and evolving place on the global stage. Research that considers the country’s strategy, influence and exercise of power in the following areas are particularly welcome: global health, internet governance, global governance, climate change, and development finance. Perspectives on issues such as foreign affairs, military conflicts, and human rights, among others, are also invited.
Contributions are encouraged from a range of vantage points, including but not restricted to, international relations, political science, economics and finance, development studies, history and cultural studies.
Submissions should clearly connect to any of the core themes ‘strategy, influence or power’. Papers that do not meet this criterion can be considered for publication in the journal’s general section.
Editors
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Alvin Camba
University of Denver, USA
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Alexandre Cesar Cunha Leite
Paraíba State University, Brazil
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Steve Tsang
SOAS University of London, UK
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Wilfred Yang Wang
The University of Melbourne, Australia
