Chin, Gregory and Ramesh Thakur

Abstract
The rebalancing of power relations places China at a crossroads. One path the predominant pattern to date is China’s continued socialization into global norms, rules, practices, and standards as a ‘‘status quo’’ power helping mainly to maintain the post-1945 institutional arrangements. A second path would see a China that challenges more established global standards, rules, and norms of international conduct. If the established powers were to resist encroachments on their traditional privileges as the global norm setters and enforcers, this path could heighten tensions and even provoke conflict.
In this article, we argue that China and the world will take a third way of continued internalization by China of select global practices and norms, alongside registering its desire and right to be at the table for rewriting some others.
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