Daring to Struggle - China's Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping

In this timely and illuminating book, internationally-renowned China scholar Bates Gill explains the fundamental motivations driving the country''s more dynamic, assertive and risk-taking approach to the world under Xi Jinping. With original and perceptive analysis, Daring to Struggle focuses on six increasingly important interests for today''s China -- legitimacy, sovereignty, wealth, power, leadership and ideas -- and details how the determined pursuit of them at home and abroad profoundly shapes its foreign relationships, contributing to a more contested strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.