Should the World Fear China? - Zhou Bo

Should the World Fear China?

By: Zhou Bo

Hardcover | 18 July 2025

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Our perception of China's global role and influence depends on our vantage point. For the United States, the People's Republic is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological means to do so. For Europe, China 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 enjoys a far more positive image in the Global South, of which the PRC considers itself a constituent member.

In this collection of essays and opinion pieces, Zhou Bo seeks answers to some of the most important questions relating to China's role in global affairs of the twenty-first century. The landscape in which the PRC is operating is not only a world becoming less Western, but also-and more importantly-a West becoming less Western.

Are Moscow and Beijing really as closely aligned as some allege? What is the future of IndiaChina relations? Is the West really facing a new Cold War foe in China? Or will transnational economic links move the two power centres ineluctably closer together, rather than further apart?

About the Author

Zhou 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.

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