What China Wants: And What It Means for the World

What does China actually want from its growing global power? Is conflict with the United States inevitable? What China Wants challenges the prevailing view that Beijing is driven by an unwavering ambition to displace American primacy and remake the world order. Drawing on decades of research and a wealth of primary sources, Jessica Chen Weiss argues that Chinese foreign policy is better understood through the lens of three core imperatives — sovereignty, security, and development — that are...