Defining Japan: The Nationalist Assumption in China's Foreign Policy

The article is devoted to identifying the role of the Confucian component in shaping China’s foreign policy during the period of “reforms and openness”. The author analyzes the Chinese “soft power” model and its differences from the classical one, the theoretical foundations of which were formulated by J. Nye, and discovers the China’s “soft power” features in foreign policy and establishes its meaningful connection with Confucian values and concepts. The article provides an overview of “soft power” interpretations in the main works of Chinese scholars, examines the reflection of Confucian “soft power” ideas in the state and party documents and decisions of the period of “reforms and openness”, shows the application of Confucian principles in the foreign policy of China. It is shown that the creation of effective Chinese “soft power” tools is becoming a part of a purposeful and long-term policy of the state. Such tools include the swift reform of leading media, TV and radio companies using modern technologies and focusing on foreign audience abroad, promoting China’s traditional and modern culture in foreign cultural markets, increasing China’s presence on the world market, spreading and promoting the Chinese language, “Education Export” and widening educational contacts, economic ties development and scientific and technical cooperation, public diplomacy development, support of the compatriots living abroad. Geopolitically, China’s soft power strategy is focused on developing relations with its close neighbors and creating a security belt around China. It has been proved that modern China seeks to proclaim itself as a new “soft power” center, the creation of which is a part of the State purposeful long-term policy. It is accompanied by the active appeal of Chinese ideologists to the country's traditional cultural heritage and basing of this new foreign policy on the conservative values of Confucianism, which is a kind of civilizational code determining all aspects of social life for China.

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THE ADJUSTMENT OF CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY IN THE CONTEXTOF ARAB SPRING

Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University (History and political science) ◽

10.18384/2310-676x-2019-2-103-113 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 103-113

Author(s):

Darya O. Voronkova

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Arab Spring ◽

China’S Foreign Policy

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Speaking to the foreign audience: Chinese foreign policy concerns as expressed in China Daily, January 1989–June 1993

Gazette (Leiden Netherlands) ◽

10.1177/001654929405300104 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 53 (1-2) ◽

pp. 43-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Robert Stone ◽

Liu Binyan

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

English Language ◽

Chinese Foreign Policy ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Global Power ◽

English Language Publication ◽

China’S Foreign Policy ◽

International English ◽

China Daily

This paper examines the foreign policy priorities and concerns of the People's Republic of China as expressed by that nation's official international, English language publication, China Daily. The paper argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, the official Chinese press can be a useful tool in assessing Chinese foreign policy priorities as result of its propaganda function. Within this paradigm, it finds that China's primary foreign policy priorities are sovereignty and territorial integrity and that China considers itself primarily a regional rather than a global power. It concludes that China's foreign policy is driven by pragmatism rather than ideology because of China's domestic project of economic development.

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