{"product_id":"should-the-world-fear-china-9781805263456","title":"Should the World Fear China?","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZhou 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAre 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZhou Bo is a senior fellow at Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy; Senior Colonel (Retired) in the People's Liberation Army; and a regular PLA speaker at the Munich Security Conference and the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue. Beyond his education at several Chinese institutions, he has studied at Harvard University and the University of Westminster, and holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hurst \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51346561859858,"sku":"9781805263456","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f7ce7fa-e02b-4f40-aed9-162dc63cda1a.jpg?v=1749049552","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/should-the-world-fear-china-9781805263456","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}