The China Question

Dragan Pavlićević is Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and researches China-Europe relations, China‘s infrastructure projects abroad, China‘s multilateral initiatives, and issues related to local-level and participatory governance in China. He is the author of Public Participation and State Building (Routledge, 2020) and numerous academic studies and policy analysis on China’s foreign relations.  Nicole Talmacs is Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and researches Chinese soft power and cultural exchange in areas of strategic interest to China. She is the author of China’s Cinema of Class (Routledge, 2017).

1. Introduction2. China’s rise, the Belt & Road Initiative, and the future of the global international order , Simone Dossi, University of Milano3. Understanding and responding to global China in the West, Anastas Vangeli, University of Ljubljana4. Contesting the “rising” China in Europe: The Shifting context and the role of “China Threat”, Dragan Pavlićević, XJTLU5. BRI Engagement and State Transformation in the Middle East, Derya Akder,  Middle East Technical University,  and Ceren Ergenc, XJTLU6. Societal contestations and adaptations to the Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia, Bhavna Dave, SOAS7.  The political performance of contestation in Australian-Chinese relations, Nicole Talmacs, XJTLU8.  Epistemic considerations on the studying of Chinese financing infrastructural projects in Africa, Debora Malito, XJTLU, and David Kiwuva, University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus9. Japan’s infrastructural push back: Strategic responses to China’s BRI, Hidetaka Yoshimatsu, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University 10. Brazil-China relations: Contestation, adaptation or transformation?, Karin Vasquez, Fudan University11. India’s response to global China, Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy, Nanyang Technological University12. Transnational developmental responses to China’s OBOR Challenge to orthodoxy, Michael Connors, XJTLU13. Agents of the Belt and Road Initiative? State and civil society perceptions of Chinese companies in Melanesia, Henryk Szadziewski, University of Hawaii