China's Foreign Policy Contradictions: Lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO Policy

Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states. Yet as Tim Nicholas Rühlig argues in China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, in recent years they have not actually acted this way. Chinese foreign policy actions fail to match up with official rhetoric, and these inconsistencies-in combination with China's growing power-will have dramatic effects on the future shape o...