No. 8: The Rise of China

Regional and Global Power Shifts

Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 8
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2007

China's rapid economic development is accompanied by an increasingly active foreign policy and growing military prowess. Power shifts at the expense of the West are looming both in East Asia and on the global stage. However, a fundamental change in the international system forged by the US would not be in Beijing's interest. Fears of a future Sino-American hegemonial conflict are exaggerated.

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