China's struggle for status: the realignment of international relations

1. Introduction 2. International status and Chinese foreign policy 3. Negotiating the human rights standard 4. Reacting to the 'China threat theories' 5. Strategic partnerships with Russia, the European Union, and India 6. Independent rivalry with Japan 7. Rediscovering Asia and Africa: the multilateral turn 8. Taiwan and China's rise 9. China's foreign relations and the emerging great-power politics.