ABSTRACT
This book started off with two questions: (1) how powerful has China become? (2) What kind of world order is likely to emerge in the wake of a rising China? Drawing on the theory of global governance, the book has taken these two interrelated themes to assess China’s increasing influence over how world affairs are governed, and what the consequences and implications will be for the evolving global order. As discussed in Chapter 1, the essence of global governance is the rules system that governs or steers the supply of global public goods by various actors to address various trans-sovereign problems in order to maintain a stable and responsive global order. At the first level, this book assesses whether China is willing and able to provide global public goods to address a wide array of global problems and whether China can craft new global rules to govern the provision of such goods. We have analysed various issue areas of global concern, ranging from peace and security to transnational organized crime (chapters 3 to 10). At the second level, it scrutinizes what implications China’s increasing engagement with global governance would have for the world order.
