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Hoover Senior Fellow, Elizabeth Economy, lays out Xi Jinping's vision aimed at reordering the world order with China at its center. Through programs like the Belt and Road Initiative, China strategically exports its own development models and expands its geopolitical dominance while presenting these changes as natural and beneficial to the international community. But Xi’s vision, supported by a comprehensive strategy to reshape the international order through territorial expansion, regional influence, and economic dominance, poses a threat to western values, institutions, and alliances.
Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Program on the US, China, and the World at the Hoover Institution.
Check out more from Elizabeth Economy:
- Listen to the latest episodes of China Considered with Elizabeth Economy here.
- Read The World According to China by Elizabeth Economy here.
- Read "China's Alternative World Order" by Elizabeth Economy here.
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