What Does China Want?

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Analysis reveals China as a status quo power focused on regional stability, suggesting cooperation with the U.S. could be beneficial.

China's approach indicates it is more concerned with regional stability than global dominance, and this challenges the prevailing narrative.
Findings suggest that China's focus on sovereignty and economic relations shapes its behavior and priorities in international organizations.
This examination of Chinese rhetoric shows that military threats are overstated, calling for a reconsideration of U.S. military strategy in the Pacific.
Cooperation between the U.S. and China on economic and diplomatic issues is feasible, despite the dominant belief in adversarial relations.

Kang et al. (2025) studied this question.

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