As Chinese leaders endeavor to maintain the international environment aligned withtheir strategic aim of realizing the ＂＇dream of national rejuvenation, ＂＇ the remarkableincrease in China ＂s capabilities, coupled...As Chinese leaders endeavor to maintain the international environment aligned withtheir strategic aim of realizing the ＂＇dream of national rejuvenation, ＂＇ the remarkableincrease in China ＂s capabilities, coupled with uncertainty in the global economy and theambivalent attitude of the USA toward the international order, poses fresh challenges toBeijing＇s foreign policy. The present paper argues that a lexicographic preference for themitigation of the risk of pushback against China＇s core interests underpins the Belt andRoad Initiative. Pursuing a strategy of credible reassurance commensurate to the shift inthe distribution of power in China＇s neighborhood and globally, President Xi Jinping＇sadministration has been cultivating a form of connective leadership that commits Chinato the encapsulation of the Belt and Road Initiative for transregional connectivity intoits own national development strategy, generating an octroye, non-hegemonic, type ofinternational social capital and integrating the existing order without corroborating theposition of its founder.展开更多
China＇s gradual integration with the global market is responsible for exceptional rates of economic growth and for the substantial sociopolitical stability enjoyed by the country over the past decades. Nevertheless, ...China＇s gradual integration with the global market is responsible for exceptional rates of economic growth and for the substantial sociopolitical stability enjoyed by the country over the past decades. Nevertheless, the choice to increasingly adhere to the competitive dynamic of the market has thrown up a battery of problems for China＇s leadership, as increasing affluence has favored the pluralization and diversification of social interests. In a country where the existence of divergent and competing social claims has traditionally been regarded as a grave threat to stability, marketization, whereas on the one hand acting as a source of political legitimacy, has, on the other, paved the way for a potentially more strained relationship between relevant corporative interests and the central government. By studying China＇s recent development from the complementary perspectives of the ＂horizontal＂ and ＂vertical＂ forms of decentralization and devolution, this paper aims to highlight the tensions with which China has had to contend since its adoption of reform and opening-up policies in the late 1970s. It aims also to suggest how the Chinese leadership＇s instinct for continued social control has cut against market reform just enough to effect a process of controlled macroeconomic integration that has been more successful than wholesale resistance or immediate unquestioning acceptance would have been.展开更多
The Belt and Road Initiative （BRI） is increasingly regarded as Beijing＇s most ambitiousforeign policy proposition since Deng Xiaoping set China on a path of reform, openingup and maintaining a low profile in intern...The Belt and Road Initiative （BRI） is increasingly regarded as Beijing＇s most ambitiousforeign policy proposition since Deng Xiaoping set China on a path of reform, openingup and maintaining a low profile in international affairs in the early 1980s. While it isstill in the process of being fully articulated, the BRI may be viewed as an overarchingpolitical vision conferring strategic quality to a set of policy streams that aim to advancetransregional multilayered connectivity across Eurasia and Africa, and thereby establisha dynamic of development cross-acceleration between these regions and China.展开更多
文摘As Chinese leaders endeavor to maintain the international environment aligned withtheir strategic aim of realizing the ＂＇dream of national rejuvenation, ＂＇ the remarkableincrease in China ＂s capabilities, coupled with uncertainty in the global economy and theambivalent attitude of the USA toward the international order, poses fresh challenges toBeijing＇s foreign policy. The present paper argues that a lexicographic preference for themitigation of the risk of pushback against China＇s core interests underpins the Belt andRoad Initiative. Pursuing a strategy of credible reassurance commensurate to the shift inthe distribution of power in China＇s neighborhood and globally, President Xi Jinping＇sadministration has been cultivating a form of connective leadership that commits Chinato the encapsulation of the Belt and Road Initiative for transregional connectivity intoits own national development strategy, generating an octroye, non-hegemonic, type ofinternational social capital and integrating the existing order without corroborating theposition of its founder.
文摘China＇s gradual integration with the global market is responsible for exceptional rates of economic growth and for the substantial sociopolitical stability enjoyed by the country over the past decades. Nevertheless, the choice to increasingly adhere to the competitive dynamic of the market has thrown up a battery of problems for China＇s leadership, as increasing affluence has favored the pluralization and diversification of social interests. In a country where the existence of divergent and competing social claims has traditionally been regarded as a grave threat to stability, marketization, whereas on the one hand acting as a source of political legitimacy, has, on the other, paved the way for a potentially more strained relationship between relevant corporative interests and the central government. By studying China＇s recent development from the complementary perspectives of the ＂horizontal＂ and ＂vertical＂ forms of decentralization and devolution, this paper aims to highlight the tensions with which China has had to contend since its adoption of reform and opening-up policies in the late 1970s. It aims also to suggest how the Chinese leadership＇s instinct for continued social control has cut against market reform just enough to effect a process of controlled macroeconomic integration that has been more successful than wholesale resistance or immediate unquestioning acceptance would have been.
文摘The Belt and Road Initiative （BRI） is increasingly regarded as Beijing＇s most ambitiousforeign policy proposition since Deng Xiaoping set China on a path of reform, openingup and maintaining a low profile in international affairs in the early 1980s. While it isstill in the process of being fully articulated, the BRI may be viewed as an overarchingpolitical vision conferring strategic quality to a set of policy streams that aim to advancetransregional multilayered connectivity across Eurasia and Africa, and thereby establisha dynamic of development cross-acceleration between these regions and China.
