By Diego Leiva, School of Government and International Relations
The rise of China has raised concerns in the region and in the West, particularly over the South China Sea disputes and China’s new Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Scholars debate what the impacts of China’s rise are on the current US-led liberal order. Is China going to challenge the existing order? Does China want to replace it with a new order? These are significant questions that were the central theme of a workshop titled “Looking to the future: China and Regional Order” hosted by Griffith Asia Institute on August 28. The workshop was attended by distinguished scholars from Australia and China, with heated discussions on Chinese foreign policy under Xi Jinping and its new assertiveness, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and the implications on the existing regional order.
Understanding China’s institutional strategies
On China’s institutional strategies and the challenges posed to the existing
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