Revitalizing the dragon

Evan S. Medeiros, analyst at the Center for Asia Pacific Policy at RAND institute analyzes the multiple layers that constitute China’s foreign policy strategy, and assesses the challenges for China in implementing its strategy and implications for U.S. policy and interests. In a RAND monograph China’s International Behaviour - Activism, Opportunism, and Diversification, he posits that Chinese leaders have concluded that their external security environment is favorable and that the next 15 to 20 years represented a “strategic window of opportunity” for China to achieve its leading objective of national revitalization through continued economic, social, military and political development while deftly leveraging the current international system.