China's Global Strategy under Xi Jinping

In this masterful treatment the authors present a convincing portrait of Xi Jinping as a transformational leader who has replaced Deng Xiaoping's cautious approach to international relations with a Sino-centric party-state paradigm that will transform the liberal world order in China's image. Limiting the effectiveness of Xi's strategy, they argue, is the reality that, although many states are not troubled by China's vision of multi-polarity as a path to its global pre-eminence, they are concerned that they may become collateral damage in Xi's ratcheting up of military intimidation. * June Teufel Dreyer, Professor of Political Science, University of Miami *
Constructing a powerful analytical framework of 'Sino-centric Party-state Realism,' Tsang and Cheung have performed in this book an outstanding scholarship to bridge China studies and theories of international relations, and to enrich both fields with in-depth and nuanced understanding of the making of Chinese foreign policy particularly China's global strategy. * Fei-Ling Wang, Professor of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, author of The China Race *
A thought-provoking deep dive into Xi Jinping's worldview and China's elaborate efforts to reshape global norms, institutions, and procedures. Tsang and Cheung decode opaque Chinese narratives and describe Beijing's various international initiatives-which expose the new Sinocentric world order that Xi and the Chinese Communist regime are meticulously building. A sobering study to be carefully read by all who want to understand what the future may hold for the world. * David Shambaugh, George Washington University & The Hoover Institution, and author of Breaking the Engagement *
Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung have impressively captured the complexity of Xi Jinping's global strategy and, in doing so, have created a volume that is essential reading for scholars and policymakers. * Evan Medeiros, Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies and the Cling Family Senior Fellow in US-China Relations, Georgetown University *
This is the most detailed and persuasive account of how Xi Jinping is working to transform the world order, why he believes that establishing Chinese preeminence requires humbling the United States over Taiwan, and why he intends to do so through a crisis rather than a war. To deter Xi, we must understand how he actually thinks, not how structural theory suggests he ought to think. Drawing on a huge range of primary sources, Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung have given us the indispensable guide to Xi's worldview. * Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow, Stanford University, and author of Defending Taiwan (Oxford 2026) *