regional China and world order Womack, Brantly creator author. Wang, Gungwu Wu, Yushan Qin, Yaqing Goh, Evelyn text - U K : Cambridge University Press , 2023 monographic xvii+255 pages "Brantly Womack argues that China's regional context is the key to both its economic success and its major political challenges. Pacific Asia is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. China's regional experience and challenges will therefore shape its global outlook and prospects"-- Continuities in China's Pacific Asian centrality -- Thin connectivity : traditional Chinese centrality -- Sharp connectivity : Western modernization and de-centered Pacific Asia -- Thick connectivity : the re-centering of Pacific Asia -- China, Pacific Asia, and reconfiguring a multinodal world -- Global power rivalry, Pacific Asia, and world order. by Brantly Womack, Includes bibliographical references and index. International organization R 327.510 182 3 BRA/R 9781009393812 20260623142924.0