Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 01/2011

Riding the Tiger: China's Rise and the Liberal World Order

Trine Flockhart, Li Xing

December 2010

Danish Institute for International Studies

Abstract

The time has come for a changed approach to both China's rise and the crisis in liberal world order. Focus must now be on conventions rather than convictions and on shared interests and concerns. Both China and the existing principal states of the liberal world order share an interest in a stable world order, and China certainly has an interest in a more harmonious society.