China and its neighbourhood

Transformation, Challenges and Grand Strategy

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ID4890878
AuthorsZhang Yunling (0000-0002-9709-9566, Professor, Academy Member and Director of International Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he was previously Director of the Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies (1993-2008), corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume92
Issue4
Pages835-848
Publication date2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1468-2346.12653
OpenAlexW2462507567
LanguageEN
Citations received23

China and its neighbours are closely bound by geography. The rise of China presents new challenges and opportunities for the development of its neighbourhood relations and regional strategies. Currently, China's policy priority in its neighbourhood is active promotion of the construction of a community based on shared interests and a common destiny. The real challenge is that China's rise from a weak to a powerful state has triggered multiple and complex reactions and has required significant and profound adjustment of regional relationships. As a consequence there have been growing tensions in China's neighbourhood areas. Traditional Chinese culture sets the highest value on ‘peace and harmony’, commends the ‘defusing’ of contradictions and pursues the result of ‘reconciliation’. Now that China is getting strong and is able to make choices as it wishes, the time has come for it to display its ‘culture of harmony’

China · Destiny (ISS module) · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Harmony (color) · Neighbourhood (mathematics) · Political economy · Political science · Social harmony · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law

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