POL SCI 51A Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Special Administrative Regions Of China, Benevolent Dictatorship, Xi Jinping
25 Mar 2016
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Under president xi jinping, the prc began to actively challenge its neighbors a lot more. Western powers are worried if china will try to remake the world in its authoritarian image as its power grows. Whereas during the later mao years, china used to promote maoist revolution abroad, for now, china does not have an impulse to promote authoritarianism abroad. Today, china accuses western world of trying to contaminate their foreign policy with ideology: democracy promotion and caring about human rights. To stall this, china pushes for sovereignty, non-interference, cultural pluralism, and mutual respect. Thus, china"s government policy is along two tracks: protecting the regime from challenges at home, pursuing its economic and security interests abroad. Increasing its soft power prestige abroad, partly via international promotion of authoritarian values: benevolent dictatorship, expanding its state run news agency, promoting the benefits of ccp rule and.
