Chapter 1: Answering the "China Question" : Local responses to Global China -- Chapter 2: Chinas rise, the Belt & Road Initiative, and the future of the global order -- Chapter 3: Understanding and Responding to Global China in the West -- Chapter 4: Contesting China in Europe: Contextual Shift in China-EU relations and the role of "China Threat" -- Chapter 5: BRI Engagement and State Transformation in the Middle East: A Case Study on Turkey -- Chapter 6: Societal Contestations and Adaptations to the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 7: The political performance of contestation and adaptation in Australian-Chinese relations -- Chapter 8: Contesting Chinas Politics of Routes: The India Way -- Chapter 9: BRI Engagement and State Transformation in the Middle East: A Case Study on Turkey -- Chapter 10: Brazil-China relations: contestation, adaptation, or transformation? -- Chapter 11: Epistemic considerations on the studying of Chinese financing infrastructural projects in Africa -- Chapter 12: ASEAN States Hedging against the China Question: Contested, Adaptive, Transformative -- Chapter 13: Agents of the Belt and Road initiative or agents of agency? Fijian state and civil society perceptions of Chinese companies.