China’s Global Vision Vacuum – An Opportunity and Challenge for Europe
Although much of the world appears highly receptive to China’ commitment to, and promotion of, sovereignty, there is growing awareness of the gap between what China says and what it does. Given its internal vulnerabilities, China cannot offer a coherent vision for global order to compete with the West, argues Tim Rühlig in his article for the
German Council on Foreign Relations. Far from constructing a vision of world order playing to its authoritarian strengths, the Chinese party-state melds its foreign policy around its domestic vulnerabilities. But China ‘s style of foreign policy will still challenge Europe because it undermines trust in existing international institutions.
Europe has some potential to influence an inward-looking China and the countries gravitating toward it, but it can only realize it if it better understands how China assesses the world through the prism of its peculiar internal splits and vulnerabilities.
https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/chinas-global-vision-vacuum
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