Foreign policy of China: the diplomacy of an emergent potency

The «pacific ascension» of China marks the new agenda of his foreign policy and consists of a step forward of the beginning of the "peaceful coexistence" prepared in the context of the cold war. The basic targets chased by the Chinese diplomacy are an independence, safety and development. Also, his international staging is determined by factors as the satisfaction of the internal needs derived from the process of modernization; the joint of his emergency like new potency; a political speech of nationalistic court; a debit vision of the world of the struggle against the hegemonismo; and his current and firm bet for the multilateralismo.

The works here presented offer us a very finished perspective of the characteristics, argumentations and problems that they affect to the Chinese foreign policy, always in his historical context and analyzing the evolution, and even the future orientations. The relation is tackled with his most next neighbors, Japan and Russia, as well as with the United States, the European Union, Latin America, Africa and other countries of Asia. Also several contributions center on key economic aspects of the international relations and others contribute interesting theoretical developments.

This pioneering work breaks barriers on having assembled specialists proceeding from China, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal and Spain in a bet decided for promoting the Latin sinology in both shores of the Atlantic Ocean for that we wait keep on yielding his fruits.

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