| 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 Peoples Republic is a partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival. For NATO, it is a decisive enabler of Russias war against Ukraine. Yet Beijings image is far more positive in the Global South, of which the PRC considers itself a part.Zhou Bos essays unpack Chinas own view of its role today. The PRC is operating not only in a world becoming less Western, butmore importantlya 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.Are 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? |
