The US Institute of Peace published in September 2022 a report titled "Beijing's Strategy for Asserting Its 'Party Rule by Law' Abroad" by Jordan Link, Nina Palmer, and Laura Edwards, all at the time with the Center for American Progress.
The authors argue that China has concluded American hegemony and Western influence are faltering and now is the time to assert greater influence abroad. The Communist Party of China's (CPC) strategy to assert its legal regime abroad hinges on three key motivations. First, the CPC is bolstering its authoritarian conceptualization of "rule by law" and its use of the law as a political tool to maintain primacy at home. Second, the CPC is seeking to extend the extraterritorial application of domestic law to increase its influence abroad. Third, the CPC is creating what it refers to as new "legal weapons" to blunt the impact of foreign legal tools such as sanctions, to implement Chinese laws abroad, and to shape the global legal environment to fit its own interests.
