Should the World Fear China?

By Bo Zhou and Zhou Bo

Book Overview

For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do so. For Europe, the People's Republic is a "partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival". For NATO, it is a "decisive enabler" of Russia's war against Ukraine. Yet Beijing's image is far more positive in the Global South, of which the PRC considers itself a part.

Zhou Bo's essays unpack China's own view of its role today. The PRC is operating not only in a world becoming less Western, but--more importantly--a West becoming less Western; and the key to its outlook lies in Africa, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific as much as in Europe and the White House.

Are Moscow and Beijing really so closely aligned? Where are Sino-Indian relations headed? Is China a new Cold-War foe for the West? Or will economic ties inevitably bring the two powers closer together?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805263455
• ISBN13: 9781805263456
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"