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In China's Galaxy Empire, John Keane and Baogang He target a development of enormous significance: China's return, after two centuries of decline and subjugation, to a position of prominence in world affairs. The daring thesis is that China is a newly rising empire of a kind never before witnessed: a galaxy empire. The first to be born of the digital communications era, this young empire is economically and politically powerful, and heavily armed. Its gravitational, push-pull effects are impacting every continent--and even outer space, where China is competing with the United States, India, and Europe to become the leading power.
The galaxy empire interpretation rejects clichéd misdescriptions of China as a "big power" or monolithic "autocracy", and it explains why China defies older definitions of land, sea, and air-based empires. The book charts the developments that have made its rising empire so novel, including the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, the rapid rise of a global Chinese middle class, and internal colonialism in Tibet and Xinjiang. The book notes the protean, shapeshifting qualities of this young empire. It therefore warns against the political and military perils of simple-minded, friend-versus-enemy thinking and "Big China, Bad China" politics. But it also proffers a forewarning to China's rulers: while every rising empire aims to shift the balance of power in its favour, no empire lasts forever, and some are stillborn, because they indulge illusions of greatness and reckless power adventures.
Contents
Part One: China's New Empire Defined
The Idea of Empire
Belt and Road
A Galaxy Empire
Land and Sea
Maritime and Air Power?
Empire and Communications
Tencent
State Capitalism
Middle Classes
Building Across Borders
Finance Matters
Part Two: Resilience, Resistance
A Ruling Ideology? The Poetics of Power
Chairman of Everything?
Abusive Power
Phantom Democracy
Domestic Troubles
Faraway Troubles
Borderlands
Ecological Civilisation
Cold Peace, Hot War
Further Reading
Index
