ABSTRACT
The fifth chapter starts with an analysis of the development of Chinese values and culture that still today orient its foreign policy, and evaluates how successful China has been in integrating traditional values with those imported from the West. The impact of Western aggression in the nineteenth century is also used to explain the origins of present-day Chinese foreign policy. Then the construction of power resources is briefly discussed in the framework of the neoliberal globalization and the role played by the US in this context, where it tries to maintain its hegemonic role. The role of the US and the inevitable confrontation with its major competitor, China, is used to explain the various dimensions of China’s policy to reclaim world power status. Finally, China’s grand strategy (the One Belt One Road – OBOR) is used to integrate the various foreign relations initiatives taken by China to understand and give sense to its foreign policy to reclaim world power status.
