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The Hidden Currents and Shifting Agenda of Chinese Foreign Policy
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11288 |
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CURRENT ISSUES
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5 / 1986 |
3,276 Words |
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Masaaki Kasahara
Masaaki Kasahara is a professor of foreign studies at Kobe
City University in Japan. |
It has been 36 years since the Chinese Communist party took the helm of state in Beijing. During this time a number of events both inside and outside of China have caused great changes in the world situation. Chinese foreign policy has also changed and developed over the years, making it difficult to understand its essentials if one analyzes the policies that emerged from any one particular period only. To understand Chinese foreign policy, it is best to examine its principles or characteristics without overemphasizing individual phenomena.
One might begin by examining those motivating forces that underlie all Chinese diplomacy, of which there are roughly two schools that have emerged over the past 36 years. One is diplomacy based on the Five Principles for peace, and the other is diplomacy supporting revolution. The former, as the slogan indicates, revolves around a policy of peaceful and friendly relationships between foreign countries. Among the aims of this policy are exchange and development of the economy as well as in other fields, and the stabilization and improvement of China's international standing. Therefore, national interest is the motivating force behind this diplomatic policy.
In contrast, the latter policy advocates the spread of socialist revolutions through the support of leftist causes in foreign countries, especially in developing ones, and the propagation of armed struggle to set up socialist regimes in the name of racial liberation. This interference unavoidably causes intergovernmental relations to deteriorate, but Chinese influence at the party level is expanded. Ideological concerns motivate this type of
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