China's Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping: How History Complicates Beijing's Global Outreach

by Niv Horesh

Book Overview

This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy, and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era.

Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place - even in the midst of oppression - and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However, empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367628465
• ISBN13: 9780367628468
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"