Interpreting China’s Strategic Discourse

Strategic Objectives and Approaches of the Silk Road Economic Belt (Sreb)

Bibliographic Data

ID22201861
AuthorsRen Mu (0000-0002-8342-5404, Jilin University), Menglong Li (0000-0001-7365-0344, Jilin University), Li Menglong
Year2023
Volume7
Issue1
Pages67-75
Publication date2023-03-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueВестник Удмуртского университета Социология Политология Международные отношения (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2587-6163 • E-ISSN: 2587-9030
PublisherUdmurt State University (PUBLISHER • RU)
DOI10.35634/2587-9030-2023-7-1-67-75
OpenAlexW4361280898
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

China’s SREB is a geo-strategic program that has been initiated based on Beijing’s judgment on its international and domestic environment. Building the SREB program servers the China grand strategy and satisfies the national demands. The Chinese government declared the ‘community with a shared future for Mankind’ is a national grand strategy and the guiding slogan of its foreign policy. This article interprets China’s governmental discourse on the guiding slogan and Chinese academic efforts to justify the grand strategy. From the Chinese perspective, the construction of the SREB needs to adopt omnidirectional diplomacy, which includes dealing with its relations with great powers, with neighboring nations, and building regional regimes and mechanisms. China’s grand strategy and three approaches sound ideal to some extent, but they demonstrate Chinese real concerns and ideas. In the long-term future, Russia will become more and more significant for China’s SREB program and the grand strategy as a whole

Beijing · China · Diplomacy · Economic Diplomacy · Economic system · Economics · Grand strategy · Political science · Politics · Slogan · Belt and Road Initiative · Global Political and Economic Relations · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law

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