Author: Evan S. Medeiros
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: opportunism, diversification, activism, behavior, international, china
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047094
ISBN-13: 9780833047090

China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is active in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. It is no longer appropriate to talk of integrating China into the international system; by and large, it is already there. Its international behavior is clearly altering the dynamics of the current international system, but it is not transforming its structure.China’s global activism is continually changing and has so many dimensions that it immediately raises questions about its