This book analyses how China overcame its meagre reputation in the early 1990s to become an
aggressively growing military power and rising threat to the international system. The author
focuses on China's new multilateral foreign policy approach ambitious military build-up
programme and economic cooperation initiatives. This book presents a much-needed comparative
perspective of China in terms of foreign policy seeking to develop analytical tools to assess
China's motivations and moves. The author suggests that understanding China's new foreign
policy its tactics in multilateral organisations and approaches to conflict resolutions are
elementary to grasp the new realities of international relations particularly relevant to
newly established institutions in the evolving Asian political system which require basic
knowledge for analysing the politics in this continent. This book uses an innovative approach
a qualitative analysis of China's foreign policy addressing criteria ofreputation management
to overcome the perceived 'China threat'.
