Facing powerful challenges from both China and the US, the long-standing engagement policy is on the defensive.

This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in the context of rising domestic discontent.

The Trump Administration declared China a strategic competitor and a revisionist power. It escalated a trade war to a fullfrontal clash with China.

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerging powers, China has demanded reform to global governance, and taken new initiatives using its new quotient

The U.S.-China trade war has always been about more than just trade.

Among other issues, it represents a move towards the decoupling of the two economies and “the culmination of decades of pent-up frustration within the United States over China’s failure to make good on the promise of its 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO),” the analyst Elizabeth Economy writes in a recent essay.