China's Galaxy Empire – Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century

In China's Galaxy Empire, John Keane and Baogang He target a development of enormous significance: China's return, after two centuries of decline and subjugation, to a position of prominence in world affairs.The daring thesis is that China is a newly rising empire of a kind never before witnessed: a galaxy empire.The first to be born of the digital communications era, this young empire is economically and politically powerful, and heavily armed.Its gravitational, push-pull effects are impacting every continent--and even outer space, where China is competing with the United States, India, and Europe to become the leading power. The galaxy empire interpretation rejects clichéd misdescriptions of China as a "big power" or monolithic "autocracy", and it explains why China defies older definitions of land, sea, and air-based empires.The book charts the developments that have made its rising empire so novel, including the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, the rapid rise of a global Ch