News Analysis
Beijing doesn’t just want to upend the U.S. system—it wants to replace it.
China’s strategy for challenging the U.S.-led international order largely proceeds according to two separate yet interrelated prongs. First, Beijing expounds on the failures of Washington’s foreign policy, pointing to its consequences and castigating its interventionist principles. Second, Beijing simultaneously presents the Chinese model of governance as a superior alternative to the liberal democratic regime, highlighting selective economic metrics and espousing its principles of “greater good” Marxian collectivism over inhumane Western individualism. Both of these prongs have recently been on display.
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