Tracing the modes of China’s revisionism in the Indo-Pacific: a comparison with pre-1941 Shōwa Japan
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has irrefutably reached ‘great power’ status. As a consequence, most
studies argue that it has adopted a revisionist posture towards the US-led international order. However, this
image tells us little about Beijing’s revisionist strategy, particularly whether it is revolutionary or incremental
and what this implies in terms of actual policies. The current article posits that the PRC is behaving as an
incremental revisionist and aims at tracing its modes. To verify this hypothesis, the analysis focuses on