ISAS Insights

China is rising again, and this time, the change is taking place in response to Beijing's policy responses to an external economic crisis. China has handled domestic economic crises before but this time around the structural impact on the country's economy and its relationship with the outside world will be very different and considerably more profound. How China will change and how that change will influence the world - not just the global economy but also the international political order - are subjects that have begun to receive some attention in academic and policy circles. This paper attempts to bring out some of the issues that should inform the debate.