This book discusses the nature of China-s current international reassertion of itself and the thinking and attitudes which lie behind it. It argues that the Chinese leadership has a strongly held view of its own high moral authority, which emphasizes inclusion, equality and mutual benefits, and that this sense of morality underpins the driving forces for China-s foreign policies, rationalization of China-s overseas activities, the overall Chinese worldview, and China-s vision of a Chinese world order. It highlights how the country-s outward expansion has been characterized mainly by spreading influence through non-use of force and strategies of -co-operation- and -managed conflict- under the umbrella of -winning without fighting-. A set of Chinese geo-strategic reasoning that addresses how the possession of capabilities in land power and sea power will interact to produce favorable balance of power corresponds to the country-s pattern of overseas activities. The book approaches the
