Pax Sinica

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pax + sinica (literally “Chinese peace”), modeled on Pax Romana.

Proper noun

Pax Sinica

  1. A hypothetical period of Chinese dominance over international affairs in the future.
    • 1993, Samuel S. Kim, “Mainland China and a New World Order”, in Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Forces for Change in Contemporary China, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 38:
      Pax Sinica via the Third World—major diplomatic efforts at shoring up its position in the Third World and the unabashed assumption of the Third World leadership that it had previously declined as evidence of its anti-hegemonic pledge
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