Hoover Institution
05/07/2024 | Press release | Archived content
The Substructures of Chinese Grand Strategy, and Why Resolute US International Engagement Matters
In this essay, Dr. Ford offers an account of China's dream of Sinocentric global order and its implications. Explaining the theory of control upon which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bases its power and influence, it describes the motivational structure behind Beijing's grand strategy; the CCP's strategic vision; how China aims to achieve that vision; and why sovereign peoples who prize their political autonomy and independence should care about these issues.
About the Author
Dr. Christopher A. Ford, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, is professor of international relations and strategic studies at Missouri State University's Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies. He was previously US assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation and special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counterproliferation at the National Security Council.