Club Lunch: Book Talk – Should the World Fear China? by Zhou Bo

For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do so. For Europe, the People's Republic is a "partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival". For NATO, it is a "decisive enabler" of Russia's war against Ukraine. Yet Beijing's image is far more positive in the Global South, of which the PRC considers itself a part. Zhou Bo's essays unpack China's own view of its role today. The PRC is operating not only in a world becoming less Western, but- more importantly- a West becoming less Western; and the key to its outlook lies in Africa, the Middle East and the lndo-Pacific as much as in Europe and the White House. Join this FCC Club Lunch for an exclusive insight into China's role on the global stage. Author Q&A session moderated by FCC Correspondent Board Governor William Zheng.