Competition remains a driving force

How do you view China's role in the world?

There is a debate about China's role in global governance that centers on the question of whether China is a supporter of the existing institutions and the status quo, or is fairly unsatisfied and wants to totally change or topple that system.

What we have noticed, myself and other contributors to my book (The Dragon's Learning Curve: Global Governance and China), is that China's behavior in different areas to global governance is different. In some places it is actually happy with the existing rules; it does not want to change them because it is a big winner from those rules, particularly rules related to trade.