China’s New Global Initiatives

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of China’s Global Initiatives launched between 2021 and 2023 as elements of a coherent strategy intended to construct a Chinese-led international order. This highly ambitious enterprise was initiated in 2013 and has relied on the Chinese socialization of the Global South political elites, which uses the prestige infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as material incentives. In recent years, however, China’s economic proble