Translation Tag: foreign policy
This 2001 analysis by political scientist Tang Shiping is a follow-up to a lengthy exposition on China’s ideal grands strategy that he penned the year prior. In this piece, he argues that China should “have its own global economic interests, to have a pivotal position in regional security affairs, and to have a political voice in global affairs.”
This lengthy analysis of China’s grand strategy was written at the turn of the millennia by Tang Shiping, a highly regarded political scientist and international relations scholar at Fudan University. The piece makes for interesting context on a host of issues that are currently front-of-mind, including cross-Strait relations, the China-US relationship, as well as China’s relationship with Russia.
A prominent Russia scholar at Fudan University disagrees with the projection that the global system will once again fall into a Cold War-style confrontation and theorizes that the Western and non-Western countries will take diverging paths in global supply chains, global trade, and security architecture.
How is Beijing assessing the effectiveness of US deterrence strategy, creditability, and capabilities? Writing in one of China’s leading IR journals, Renmin University’s Zuo Xiying concludes that while US “failed to deter Russia from taking military action,” its actions to support Ukraine and punish Moscow “produced a powerful deterrent effect against China with regard to the Taiwan issue.”
The director of China Foreign Affairs University’s National Soft Power Research Center explores the recently proposed Global Development Initiative, arguing that it “adheres to the original mission of the Chinese Communist Party and injects strong ideological impetus to unite all countries in the world for common development and win-win cooperation.”
Scholars at one of China’s leading state-controlled international relations think tanks provide a lengthy overview of the recently-proposed Global Security Initiative, explain its core pillars, and link the idea of global security with China’s own national security.
A professor of international relations at one of China’s leading universities explains the need for the newly proposed Global Security Initiative, citing recent and historical geopolitical instability under the leadership of “the West”.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s speech at a June 2022 joint forum between Russian and Chinese think tanks, where he promotes the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, and suggests that Russia and China have the opportunity to shape a new approach to global governance.
Yuan Peng, the president of one of China’s leading international relations think tanks and an influential advisor to the CCP on foreign policy, outlines the importance of Xi Jinping’s vision of “national security” for navigating the “new great struggle” of global uncertainty.
This January 18th speech by Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng argues that China has achieved several diplomatic successes amidst major global “crises and challenges” in 2021.