Peaceful rise and the limits of Chinese exceptionalism

In: Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Band 57, Heft spe, S. 210-224

Abstract

Throughout the last thirty years of opening to the world Beijing has stressed that its rise will be peaceful and that, from a strategic point of view, China is exceptional. There are many challenges facing Beijing's response to the US rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific, but we consider that the ones with greater impact are, in point of fact, of a domestic nature and constitute limits to Chinese exceptionalism.