Correction to: International Politics https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-019-00206-7

The original article contains ten errors relating to the referencing information. These errors were introduced into the proofs by the publisher and overlooked by the author during the proofing stage of production of this article.

In the 'References' section on the last page of the online published article, the lower-case letter ‘a’ was incorrectly added to the year of publication in the bibliographic entry for Zhao Kejin’s work. The correct text for the bibliographic entry is ‘Zhao, K. 2013. Zouxiang nanfang keneng shi Zhongguo jinhou shinian de zhanlue zhongxin (Going South might be the strategic focus of China in the next ten years). Shijie zhishi 24: 22–24’.

A related error was made in Line 2 of Page 21 of the online published article, where the citation of Zhao Kejin’s work was incorrectly changed to ‘Zhao 2013a’ in the in-text citation. The correct text for the citation is ‘(Yang 2012; Feng 2012; Zhao, K 2013; Niu 2013; Zhang 2013)’.

In the last sentence of Footnote 16 on Page 21 of the online published article, the citation of Zhao Minghao’s work was incorrectly changed and appeared as ‘Zhao 2013a, b’. The correct text for the last sentence is ‘See Xiao 2013; Zhao, M 2013; Zhan 2013; Lin and Zheng 2014’.

Another error was made in the 'References' section on the last page of the online published article. In the bibliographic entry for the article by Zhang Wenmu, published in 2017, the lower-case letter ‘c’ that follows the year of publication ‘2017′ was incorrectly changed to the lower-case letter ‘b’. The correct text for the bibliographic entry is ‘Zhang, W. 2017c. Diyuan zhengzhi de benzhi jiqi Zhongguo yunyong (The nature of geopolitics and its application in China). Taipingyang xuebao 25(8): 1–14’.

In Line 7 on Page 18 of the online published article, the lower-case letter ‘c’ that follows the second ‘2013′ in the in-text citation was incorrectly deleted. The correct text for the citation is ‘(2013a, 2, 2013c, 16, 18)’.

In Line 10 of the second paragraph on Page 19 of the online published article, the page number ‘3′ that follows ‘2013a’ in the in-text citation was incorrectly deleted. The correct text for the citation is ‘(2012, 2013a, 3, b, c, 22)’.

In Line 9 and 10 on Page 20 of the online published article, the lower-case letter ‘c’ that follows ‘2013′ in the in-text citation was incorrectly deleted. The correct text for the citation is ‘(2013c, 23)’.

In the last line of the second paragraph on Page 14 of the online published article, the lower-case letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ and ‘d’ were incorrectly added to the year of the cited source ‘2013′ in the in-text citation. The correct text for the citation is ‘(Wang, Y 2013)’.

In Line 21 of Page 28 of the online published article, the year of the cited publication was incorrectly changed to ‘2012′ in the in-text citation. The correct text for the citation is ‘(2016, 60)’.

In Line 2 and 3 of Footnote 11 on Page 13 of the online published article, the years of the two Central Conferences on Foreign Affairs, ‘2014′ and ‘2018′, were incorrectly deleted in the two sentences. The correct text for the footnote is ‘For instance, elements of continuity can still be found in the Xinhua News report on Xi Jinping’s first Central Conference on Foreign Affairs held in 2014 (2014). Tellingly, in the Xinhua News report on Xi Jinping’s second Central Conference on Foreign Affairs held in 2018 (2018), those Dengist elements have been dropped altogether’.