Comprehension of “great power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics”. Similarities and differences
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2021-3-79-97
Abstract
The article is devoted to the development of the modern foreign policy course of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping – Diplomacy of the Great Power with Chinese characteristics. The fifth generation of Chinese leaders made a concept shift in foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China. The author studies main and most remarkable Chinese diplomatic concepts investigated in the new era: concepts Diplomacy of the Great Power with Chinese characteristics, New type of great powers relations, One Belt One Road initiative, Community of shared future for mankind. The purpose of our study is to understand, to comprehend which of the key concepts under study, which is the financial support for the practical implementation of infrastructure projects; how Chinese political leadership implements them for global governance and promoting their interests in Eurasia, Latin America, Africa, and others continents. The leading approach to the study of the issue is determined by the ideology of “Non-West”, or non-Western theories of international relations, the National Chinese School in particular. The comparative method allows establishing the general and specific in the main theories of Chinese foreign policy from the beginning of the 21st century till up to the present. The article identifies and defines the basic features and differences in the content of those theories. As an example, the issue of the content of the term New type of relationship in the modern Chinese foreign policy discourse is considered.
It becomes obvious that Xi Jinping, by realizing the diplomacy of the great power and calling his people to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族伟大复兴), expands its influence throughout the world. That is not just a foreign policy discourse. China is becoming more active in building a dialogue with its closest neighbors in Asia, as well as establishing new institutions as an alternative to the Western-led global architecture, to assert its ascendancy and political, economic, cultural power.
About the Author
A. V. Boyarkina
Far Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anna V. Boyarkina, Cand. of Sci. (Politics), associate professor
690922, Vladivostok, Russky Island, Ajax Bay, bld. 10
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