Is China a Global Power?: The Three Great Walls of the Middle Kingdom

Francisco José Leandro currently holds the position of Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Faculty of Social Sciences and serves as the Associate Director of the Institute for Global and Public Affairs at the University of Macau, China. His scholarly contributions include authoring The Belt and Road Initiative: An Old Archetype of a New Development Model (2020); The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: The Case of the Belt and Road Initiative (2023); Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States: The Development Journeys of Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste (2023); and The Palgrave Handbook on China-Europe-Africa Relations: Legacies and the New International Order (2025), all published by Palgrave Macmillan.