![A kid and his guardian walk across a footbridge in Taipei, where Taiwan flags flutter ahead of the island’s national day, amid rising tensions with China, in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 5, 2022.](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2022-10-05T000000Z_1862207784_MT1NURPHO000MRUWUZ_RTRMADP_3_TAIWAN-CHINA-1.jpg?quality=75&w=500)
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How do President Xi Jinping’s personal ambitions and the centralization of power in the Chinese Communist Party affect China’s approach to foreign policy?
What are the implications of Chinese activity across various strategic domains — security, infrastructure, economic statecraft, and more — for the United States?
How does China view its strategic requirements in East Asia as it expands its global influence and footprint?
How is China navigating relations with other major powers?
China aspires to global technology leadership. Can it achieve its ambitions? What would the impacts be at home and abroad?
China now touches virtually every region in the world — how is China’s increasing involvement impacting South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and elsewhere?
From human rights to energy to trade and beyond, how is China approaching global norms and norm development?