Human security challenges with China: why and how the rise of China makes the world vulnerable? / Guoguang Wu -- Anthropocentric theory of human security: Confucius meets Hobbes / Robert E. Bedeski -- Climate change challenges China's foreign policy / Joanna I. Lewis -- Climate change of the trans-Himalayan region and its impact on China-South Asia water security / David Kerr -- Environmental security and its implications for China's foreign relations / Junko Mochizuki and ZhongXiang Zhang -- Multilateral environmental engagement with Chinese characteristics / Timothy Scolnick -- The exploding balloon: environmental costs of China's participation in global capitalism / Dai Qing, Helen Lansdowne and Patricia Adams -- Human security implications of China's foreign energy relations / Gaye Christoffersen -- Fuelling insecurity: energy and human security in Sino-Myanmar relations / Gabriel Botel -- Food security and food safety in China's foreign policy / by Elizabeth Wishnick -- Pandemic responses in the Asia-Pacific: risk and opportunity in PRC's international relations / Jonathan Schwartz -- China's brain drain woes: elite emigration and national security / Willy Lam -- Corporate social responsibility in China's new economic diplomacy / Robert J. Hanlon.