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This book has described the role of China’s regional initiatives in the process of contestation of key pillars of the regional order in Asia. Contrarily of realist predictions China is not behaving as a revisionist state, destined to subvert the current international order. Beijing is rather promoting a selective contestation of the current regional order, advancing its preferences, its interests and its values. China has developed a narrative based on post-colonial and neo-Confucian elements that has gained a certain traction in the Asia. Ultimately, through Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has been proposing itself as potential regional leader in the wide Eurasian context. Finally, China’s initiatives appear to be destined to strengthen the pluralist features of the regional order in Asia.
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As we saw in Chapter 3, the Japanese position has evolved since the beginning of 2017.
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Here we don’t mean any form of solidarity between actors involved. In line with the English School meaning of the term, we mean forms of governance that regulate and protect the role of individuals, as economic actors, from the intervention of the state.
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Ethiopia, for instance, looks positively at how China addressed major globalization challenges while guaranteeing the interests of developing countries .
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Dian, M., Menegazzi, S. (2018). Conclusion. In: New Regional Initiatives in China’s Foreign Policy . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75505-2_6
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