Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic

Ye Zicheng

China’s enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power. Inside China’s Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People’s Republic offers unique insights from a prominent Chinese scholar about the country’s geopolitical ambitions and strategic thinking.

Ye Zicheng, professor of political science in the School of International Studies at Peking University, examines China’s interactions with current world powers as well as its policies toward neighboring countries. Despite claims that repressive domestic policies and an economic slowdown are evidence that the country’s efforts toward modernization will fail, Ye points to China’s inclusion in the G-20 as an indicator of success. Ye compares China’s global ascension, particularly its emphasis on peace, to the historical experiences of rising European superpowers, providing an insider look at a country poised to become an increasingly prominent international power.

Ye Zicheng YE ZICHENG, professor of international politics and chairman of the Academic Committee in the School of International Studies at Peking University in China, is the author of numerous influential books, including Opening to the Outside World and China’s Modernization, Geopolitics and Chinese Diplomacy, and New China’s Diplomatic Thought: From Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping.

“A comprehensive, balanced, judicious and well-argued Chinese analysis of China’s place in the world.”
—Barrett L. McCormick, author of
What if China Doesn’t Democratize? Implications for War and Peace

“It provides an invaluable guide to the thinking of one of the more important, rationalist voices on China’s approach to grand strategy. . . . Speaks to some of the core issues confronting China’s leaders today, and does so in a way that illuminates the ‘strategic choices’ which they are still making, both at home and abroad.”
— China Journal