"Narrow" Self-Interest, Rather Than Role As A Global Player, Drives China's Foreign Policy

Even as China is poised to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy, its foreign policy is driven less by its sense of its role as a key global player than by a set of 'Narrowly defined' national interests, says Professor Kenneth Lieberthal, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at The Brookings Institution.