POLS 396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socialist Market Economy, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao
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Pols396 week 3 readings part 1 (beijing learns to be a superpower by willy lam) President hu jintao ( heads the ccp"s leading group on foreign affairs) is pushing. Quasisuperpower diplomacy to consolidate china"s pre-eminence in the new world order. Essentially meant that china should work together with the other great powers to transform a unipolar world order to a multipolar world order. Beijing is no longer shying away from frontal contests with the us, china"s strategic competitor. For the hu-led politburo quasisuperpower diplomacy means that china will expand its influence in regions ranging from the association of southeast asian nations bloc to africa and latin. America and in global bodies like the united nations, the world bank and the imf.