China's Geo-Strategy and International Behaviour by Akshaya Handa

Author:Akshaya Handa [Handa, Akshaya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Globalization, Diplomacy, General, Political Science, Geopolitics, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9789382652557
Google: jQeqCQAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 25545031
Publisher: Vij Multimedia
Published: 2014-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

Middle Kingdom Approach30,31

The recent assertiveness which distinguishes China’s foreign policy, especially with reference to South China Sea and Sino-Japan maritime border, has made many Sinologists conclude that the Middle Kingdom approach is again coming to the fore. This approach, according to Henry Kissinger, is the running theme throughout China’s history. As mentioned earlier, Chinese consider their country to be the centre of the universe and those living outside China as barbarians. The relations between China and the outside world was an unequal relation, the neighbouring states had to pay regular tributes and kowtow (Kow Tow is the act of great respect displayed by kneeling and bowing so low as to have one’s head touch the ground) before the Chinese emperor. As Henry Kissinger points out in his latest book, On China, the essence of Chinese approach to diplomacy have drawn on “methods handed over millennia”. To quote Kissinger, “None equals China in persisting and persuading its neighbours to acquiesce – in such an elevated conception of its world role for so long and in the face of so many historical vicissitudes. From the emergence of China as a unified country in the third century BC until the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, China stood at the centre of an international system of remarkable durability. The Chinese Emperor was conceived of (and recognized by most neighbouring states) as a pinnacle of a universal political hierarchy with all the other states’ rulers theoretically serving as vassals”.

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