Conclusion

Abstract

China’s national strategy is in a perpetual state of transition with alternating and blending phases of openness, reform, control, and restrictions. The balance of market economy and authoritarian regime in China is undermined by several internal and external challenges that CCP leaders are called to face in the next decade. Chinese contemporary perceptions of the outside world as well as external and internal threat assessments do have a direct mental and practical links to extremely intricate structural setting of unfinished domestic transformation. The ability of China to achieve full economic, political, military and technological modernization to fully defend achievements remains far from certain. Practical answers to the new challenges will define whether Beijing will have considerable influence on world overall strategic stability scene.