China in the 21st Century

This book offers original studies that analyze the main challenges facing China and its impact on the global geopolitical balance, with special attention to Latin America, the United States, and the Asia Pacific. China’s transformation into a global power has been one of the most significant processes of the twenty-first century. Its growing political, economic, technological, and environmental influence has reconfigured the dynamics of the international system. It provides a comprehensive, critical, and multidimensional view of the challenges facing China on its path to global leadership. Rigorous academic approaches and concrete case studies offer analytical tools to understand the complexity of a changing world. This book is recommended for academicians, students, policy makers, and to all those interested in current geopolitical relations, the growing importance of China in this context, and how to make the global order more balanced, sustainable, and inclusive.