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The question of what Xi Jinping’s China wants — the scope of its ambitions, the short- and long-term goals that it has set, the vision that guides its ruling elites — is at once the most foundational, most intractably difficult, and most hotly contested question that outside observers and Chinese elites themselves are asking. How that question is answered in universities and think tanks, in boardrooms, and in national capitals fundamentally shapes approaches and policies toward China at every level.
“What does China want” can, after all, be asked at multiple levels. Globally, is China a revisionist power, bent on overturning the “rules-based international order,” or is it a selective revisionist that wants multinational institutions to better reflect new realities? Does China seek to export its governance model, or is it just trying to “make the world safe for autocracy”? What should we make of its new global initiatives — in security, in development, even in civilization? Or of its diplomatic forays i
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