Roundtable Review of Scott M. Moore, China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022

Scott M. Moore’s China Next Act offers a nuanced and sophisticated analysis of China’s approach to key policy sectors like climate change, health cooperation, internet governance, and biotechnologies. In doing so, it provides a unique observation point on Beijing’s role in contemporary global governance. Because it is complementary to most of the recent scholarly works on China’s rise, this book is a particularly useful resources for scholars, graduate students and policy analysts who follow the debates regarding China’s policy- making, international relations, and international history.