Multilateral Approach In China's Foreign Policy

by Joseph Yu-shek Cheng

Overview

Since the mid-1990s, the Chinese authorities have gradually come to embrace multilateralism to realize their basic foreign policy objectives in maintaining a peaceful international environment and enhancing China's international status and influence. This embrace is largely based on pragmatic considerations. There is no denial, however, that elements of liberalism and constructivism gradually enter into the considerations of Chinese leaders. They accept, for example, that non-traditional security issues can only be tackled through genuine multilateralism. This volume carefully examines China's increased participation in multilateral organizations and mechanisms and its efforts to initiate and develop its own discourses on global affairs straddling Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Latin American continents. China's presence in international multilateral organizations has been providing developing countries a better chance to maintain a balance of power. Since China has no ambitious plan to transform the existing international order, its increasing enthusiastic engagement of multilateralism is likely to be accepted by the international community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813221109
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/09/2018
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

About the Author ix

Chapter 1 Multilateralism - Theoretical Issues and China's Approach in Foreign Policy Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 1

Part I China in Asia 41

Chapter 2 China's Asian Policy: Adjusting to Its Increasing Strength Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 43

Chapter 3 China's Evolving Regional Strategy in East Asia Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 123

Chapter 4 China's ASEAN Policy in the 1990s: Pushing for Regional Multipolarity Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 171

Chapter 5 From the Path of Least Resistance to Increasing Assertiveness: China's Way of Engagement in Sourtheast Asia Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng Huangao Shi 207

Chapter 6 The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area - Updates on the Treaty's Econometric Evalution Stefania Paladini Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 267

Chapter 7 China-ASEAN Economic Cooperation and the Role of Provinces Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 301

Part II China and the World 355

Chapter 8 The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: China's Initiative in Regional Institutional Building Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 357

Chapter 9 China's Approach to SCO: Institutional Development, Economic Cooperation, Security and the Challenge from Afghanistan Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 397

Chapter 10 China's Relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Multilevel Diplomacy in a Divided Arab World Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 437

Chapter 11 China's Approach to BRICS Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 477

Chapter 12 Latin America in China's Contemporary Foreign Policy Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng 521

Chapter 13 China's African Policy: Increasing Importance and Active Adjustments Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng Huangao Shi 587

Bibliography 647

Index 673