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China’s Global Power/China as a Global Power

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Assessing China’s Power

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It is not difficult to find assertions that China is already a global power. Though some examples can be found from the mid-2000s,1 China’s global power status has become much more commonly sighted and asserted in the years following the global financial crisis. While considerations of what the world will look like with China as a global superpower tend to still be exercises in forecasting the future, some suggest that we are already there.2 And if not yet the predominant global power in all issue areas, the 2013 Pew survey of global attitudes found that China is now popularly thought of as the world’s leading economic power in North America and Europe.3

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Breslin, S. (2015). China’s Global Power/China as a Global Power. In: Chung, J.H. (eds) Assessing China’s Power. Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534613_11

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