Chinese Foreign Policy Making

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-59
Author(s):  
Kevin G. Cai
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy

From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping: Elite Instability and China's U.S. Policy

1989 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 265-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
Leadership Turnover

In the field of Chinese foreign policy, the debate continues over the importance of domestic and international factors in policy–making. Scholars arguing in favour of the special importance of domestic politics in the formulation of policy point to the existence of elite differences over foreign policy and contend that the shifting fortunes of individual leaders and the leadership turnover associated with succession politics can significantly shape China's security policy. Other scholars stress the importance of such international factors as shifting global balances of power, changing alliance patterns, and relative bargaining strengths in Beijing's foreign policy.

The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy: Problems and Prospect

1994 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Yu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Empirical Validity ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
State Of The Field

This article examines the state of the field in the Western study of Chinese foreign policy. After briefly surveying the earlier generations of scholarship, it critiques the current narrow focus and apolitical tendency in studying Chinese foreign policy-making institutions and perceptions of foreign policy makers and specialists. The author argues for a more balanced and more comprehensive approach that combines analytical vigor and empirical validity.

Two Views of Chinese Foreign Policy

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Zhi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Principal Factor ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
External Threat ◽  
Internal Affairs

The authors of the two volumes under review present different approaches to an analysis of the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China. Gurtov and Hwang stress the importance of national interest and the interaction of domestic factors and foreign policy; they make a connection between China's sensitivity to external threat and its reaction to it, especially at times of domestic political weakness. Armstrong asserts that ideology has played a major role in Chinese foreign policy making. In both volumes, case studies are cited to support the authors' hypotheses. The article concludes that national interest is the principal factor determining the foreign policy of the PRC. Mao Zedong's thought continues to play an important role in Chinese thinking; it is concerned with domestic economic and social change and not with the internal affairs of other countries.

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