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The book aims to communicate to readers in a clear, fluent, and well-documented fashion the new role that China plays in the geography of world power, evaluating its weight, influence, and impact on future developments. China's ambition and its vision of international affairs can be summed up in Beijing's desire to 'build a community of common destiny for mankind'. Behind this concept lies the desire to present itself as a peaceful nation, interested in a common global development in full compliance with the principles embraced by the United Nations — to be achieved through win-win relationships, capable of bringing mutual benefits to the actors engaged in international cooperation. China has experienced extraordinary growth in recent decades and intends to continue carving out the space it deserves in various international fora. According to the author, this does not necessarily represent a 'threat' — as its Western detractors contend — given the People's Republic's intention to achieve its goals through mutual respect, spatial interconnection, and long-term productive investments. The book has been published in Italy by Meltemi and is in course of publication by the Chinese publisher New Star Press.

'Those who deal with China are well aware that the West's gaze on the People's Republic has often been dismissive, superficial, and distorted. A sort of festival of stereotyped opinions, with value judgments constantly used to highlight the West's alleged superiority vis-à-vis the 'Chinese model'. Regardless of whether one likes the Chinese political-economic system or not, no country can avoid engaging with it. Especially if we consider that the exhaustion of the propulsive thrust of Western globalization is increasingly evident, and corresponds, conversely, to the rise of a new constructive 'globalization with Chinese characteristics.'

Contents:

• Foreword: Western Stereotypes on China

• About the Author

• Acknowledgements

• Understanding China:

  • Chinese Success and Western Fears
  • At the Roots of the Chinese Consensus
  • Concepts, Procedures and Results
  • Global Interconnectedness: The BRI
  • The Struggle Against Poverty
  • The Case of Yunnan

• From Neoliberal Globalisation to the New Chinese Vision:

  • Globalisation, Crisis and Structural Changes
  • The Space–Time Dynamics of Capitalism and Geopolitical Analysis
  • COVID-19, Neoliberal Parable and Globalisation with Chinese Characteristics

• BRI, The Greatest Investment Plan in History:

  • The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Historical Background
  • The Meaning and Origin of China's New Project
  • The BRI and Europe
  • BRI: Threat or Opportunity for the Italian Ports?
  • The White House's Unseemly Reaction After the Signing of the China–Italy MoU
  • Why the Belt and Road Is Not a New Marshall Plan, but It Isn't a Trap Either
  • China in Africa and the Belt and Road Initiative

• Multilateralism and American Decline:

  • Loss of Legitimacy in a Changed World
  • Europe and the United States: What Security?
  • The US Attacks while China Grows Stronger
  • The Parable of the WTO
  • The Chinese Perspective Concerning Its Relation with the US
  • From Trump to Biden: More Ideology, Less Business?
  • Xinjiang: Between Media Manipulations and Strategic Objectives
  • China–Italy

• The COVID-19 Pandemia and Its Geopolitical Consequences:

  • Contextualising the News
  • The Case of Italy
  • A Road to Common Health: Joint Efforts to Contain COVID-19
  • Notes and Personal Experience
  • Three Possible Future Scenarios

• Europe–Russia Crisis, China's Role and World Rebalancing:

  • European Crisis
  • China's Role
  • SCO and World Rebalancing

• Appendix: How China Is Building a Non-imperialist Model of International Development

• Index

Readership: Sinologists; academic audience in the fields of International Political Economy, economic and political geography, international relations, geopolitics; political practitioners; general western audience, general reader.
Key Features:

• Community with a shared future is an important topic in the study of China's official narratives. It has both supporters and detractors and also some who argue that it is controversial
• This book intends to decode what it considers myths and misunderstandings from the foreign audience using a comparative analysis
• There are no books analyzing this subject from the author's European perspective
• Overall, the book offers an interesting topic that is not extensively discussed in the academic world or the trade professional sector (beyond media commentaries)
• The topic itself may be controversial to some in the West, therefore it may elicit some strong reactions from them
• The book may also appeal to Sinologists