ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the following questions through a comparison of recent changes in Chinese national strategy with those of two other key countries that have been major beneficiaries of the modern world order, Germany and Japan. The questions are Why, despite being one of the great winners in the Post-Cold War international system, does China appear to be increasingly dissatisfied with the current world order? Why has it given evidence that it might be a revisionist state, one that is so deeply disenchanted with the East Asian political-territorial order that it might use force to alter that order? Germany has responded to the end of the Cold War with a strategy that has made it look more and more like a Rosecrancian trading state. China has also been a major beneficiary of the international regimes for international money and finance, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
