Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. "A coherent body of thought and action" : Grand strategy and hegemonic order
2. "The party leads everything" : Nationalism, leninism, and the chinese communist party

PART Ⅰ. "Hiding capabilties and biding time" : Blunting as china's first displacement strategy (1989-2008)
3. "New cold wars have begun" : The trifecta and the new american threat
4. "Grasping the assassin's mace" : Implementing political blunting
5. "Demonstrate benign intentions" : Implementing political blunting
6. "Permanent normal trading relations" : Implementing economic blunting

PART Ⅱ. "Actively accomplish something" : Building as china's second displacement strategy (2009-2016)
7. "A Change in the Balance of Power" : the Financial Crisis and the Dawn of Building
8. "Make More Offensive Moves" : Implementing Military Building
9. "Establish Regional Architecture" : Implementing Political Building
10. "Aboard Our Development Train" : Implementing Economic Building

PART Ⅲ. "Great changes unseen in a century" : Global expansion as china's third displacemnet strategy (2017 and beyond)
11. "Toward the World's Center Stage" : American Decline and China's Global Ambition
12. "Standing Tall and Seeing Far" : the Ways and Means of China's Global Expansion
13. An Asymmetric Strategy for US-China Competition

Conclusion

Appendix
Notes
Index