ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief review of the literature on global governance and its relation to China. The chapter includes China's role in trying to re-shape the international economic and financial order more in line with its interests. It examines China's role in fighting global warming and climate change, addressing nuclear proliferation, and combating international piracy. The chapter offers some observations on the role of China playing in each of those four areas. China has continued its generally cautious tone in terms of addressing global common challenges and issues. The chapter suggests that this generally cautious approach with a strong economic and financial slant is a sensible and practical one that China has deliberately undertaken that draws on its strength. President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama announced that both countries continue to include hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) within the scope of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as well as the Kyoto Protocol for accounting and reporting of emissions.
