title: Emerging China-led Regionalism and Soft Balancing
abstract: China has consolidated its status within a complex network of multilateral organizations since the end of the Cold War. Gradually, it has established multiple frameworks with the aim to provide some alternatives to the existing structures. Questions arise whether Beijing is going to use this China-led structure to soft balance Russia in Central Asia or the United States in the Asia Pacific, on its quest to secure its core interests (hexin liyi). A comparative method of China’s pro-active agenda 
journal: Journal of East Asia Security