China's geoeconomic strategy: does China have a foreign policy?: domestic pressures and China’s strategy

As China approaches its wholesale change of leadership staring later this year it faces as wide a set of challenges as any country on earth. The scale and speed of its material rise over the last three decades has been such that it is all too easy to overlook what has not been done, and to exaggerate the extent to which the People’s Republic (PRC) is ready to become the dominant global force.