Publication

This publication describes the international order that President Xi Jinping and China's elites would like to create. More specifically, it 1) discusses the ongoing Chinese debates about this preferred order, including its cultural-historical dimensions; 2) reconstructs the supposedly community-based principles that undergird China’s vision; 3) explores two components of Beijing’s world view – the New Silk Road initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; 4) ponders the tensions between China’s preferred world order and existing external global standards; 5) wonders to what extent Beijing would be ready to take over active leadership in a regional-international system; and 6) contemplates what a China-centered order would mean for Europe and Poland.