Contrary to Deng Xiaoping's famous dictum of "Hiding strengths and Biding time", as a ten-ton panda, China has no option but to emerge from hiding under the bushel. Click here

But what shapes China's new-found more assertive foreign policy? Is it purely reactive and devoid of any grand design? How does China view relations with a resurgent Japan and the United States as the world superpower? Does China have a "periphery strategy"? How does China's recent Silk Road Strategy fit into these calculations?

A Special Issue of April 2015 of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) based in London summarizes succinctly what some of China's foremost strategic scholars think on these critical questions.

Download ECFR April 2015 Special Issue – Explaining China's Foreign Policy Reset