Pragmatism in Chinese Foreign Policy
Contemporary Review › Band 289 Nr. 1684, April 2007
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China's ASAT test raises unsettling questions about China's commitment to arms control, the ramifications of its rise as a major power, and its military posture and foreign policy towards the United States, and the test calls into question its longstanding opposition to space weapons. While the test may not have been a coordinated effort to coerce the United States to negotiate a space weapons treaty, it is possible that the test was a response to US government and military statements advocating the development of space weapons. According to the economic interdependence theory, economic interdependency and free trade is a force for peace, with economic self-interest a powerful disincentive for war, as the benefits of trade outweigh the costs of territorial expansion.
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Pragmatism in Chinese Foreign Policy
CHINA'S economic success, billion dollar trade surpluses and massive market penetration are enormously attractive. The year 2006 saw China acquire the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world, worth a mind-boggling $1 trillion. It also saw China firmly establishing itself as the world's fourth-largest economy, an achievement based on two decades of solid economic growth. According to a recent report by Citigroup, China could be the world's largest economy in the next 25 years.
Increasingly countries from Japan to the US are expressing unease at Beijing's foreign policy as well as its military modernisation programme, calling attention to what they allege is the opaque nature of this process. Human rights groups have also attacked China's willingness to deal with regimes widely condemned as corrupt and oppressive. For instance, China is currently Angola's largest export market and also absorbs some 70 per cent of Sudan's exports. China has in fact repeatedly used its clout at the UN in the defence of African countries widely condemned by the West. Th...Siehe den Gesamtinhalt dieses Dokumentes
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