Title: Everything under the heavens
Description: For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer.
Subjects: Geopolitics, Strategic culture, Foreign relations, China, foreign relations, 1949-, China, foreign relations, asia, Culture, Asia, foreign relations, China, military policy, HISTORY, China, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political Ideologies, Nationalism & Patriotism, World, Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies /.
Places: China, Asia
Time periods: 21st century