Book review: China's grand strategy: A roadmap to global power?

Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China’s Grand Strategy, David B. H. Denoon brings together ten prominent scholars in the field of political science and international relations to examine China’s rapid ascendance on the world stage, as well as future implications for global politics. The contributors address the military, economic, diplomatic, and internal political factors shaping China’s global strategies, in addition to highlighting Beijing’s different objectives worldwide. Ultimately, they explore the promise and perils of China’s rapidly changing political ambitions, from military power to economic dominance, showing how Beijing has made its tremendous mark on the twenty-first century. To identify whether the major policy directions that China has undertaken fit together into a coherent grand strategy, the book is divided into two parts: a functional section that analyzes Chinese policy regarding its national security (chapters 1–3), and a section that examines six regions of the world (chapters 4–9). As the volume’s authors have been selected to represent a wide range of viewpoints, the editor compares these competing views in the concluding chapter.