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This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus
on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative
approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to
highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the
narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this
bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third
parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe
in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic
communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and
media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The
Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas
addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and
China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and
its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships.
This book studies the three most important Chinese foreign policy
concepts under Xi Jinping's leadership - "New Type of Great Power
Relations", "Belt and Road Initiative" and "Community of Shared
Future for Mankind". Those signature concepts are often considered
as China's well-thought-out strategic plans reflecting Beijing's
concrete geopolitical vision. This book, however, argues that these
views are mistaken. It develops a slogan politics approach to study
Chinese foreign policy concepts. The overarching argument is that
those concepts should be understood as multifunctional slogans for
political communication on the domestic and international stages.
This book shows how those concepts function as political slogans to
(1) declare intent, (2) assert power and test domestic and
international support, (3) promote state propaganda, and (4) call
for intellectual support. The slogan politics approach highlights
the critical role of China's academic and local actors as well as
international actors in shaping China's foreign policy ideas. It
provides critical insights to understand how Chinese domestic
actors exert their influence and voice their narratives to
influence China's policy agenda and debate. It suggests that the
existing analyses vastly exaggerate Beijing's capacity to
coordinate domestic actors including forging coherent Chinese
foreign policy narratives and unifying use of China's policy
concepts.
This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus
on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative
approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to
highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the
narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this
bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third
parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe
in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic
communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and
media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The
Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas
addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and
China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and
its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships.
This book studies the three most important Chinese foreign policy
concepts under Xi Jinping's leadership - "New Type of Great Power
Relations", "Belt and Road Initiative" and "Community of Shared
Future for Mankind". Those signature concepts are often considered
as China's well-thought-out strategic plans reflecting Beijing's
concrete geopolitical vision. This book, however, argues that these
views are mistaken. It develops a slogan politics approach to study
Chinese foreign policy concepts. The overarching argument is that
those concepts should be understood as multifunctional slogans for
political communication on the domestic and international stages.
This book shows how those concepts function as political slogans to
(1) declare intent, (2) assert power and test domestic and
international support, (3) promote state propaganda, and (4) call
for intellectual support. The slogan politics approach highlights
the critical role of China's academic and local actors as well as
international actors in shaping China's foreign policy ideas. It
provides critical insights to understand how Chinese domestic
actors exert their influence and voice their narratives to
influence China's policy agenda and debate. It suggests that the
existing analyses vastly exaggerate Beijing's capacity to
coordinate domestic actors including forging coherent Chinese
foreign policy narratives and unifying use of China's policy
concepts.
Why did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not follow the failure of
the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? This
book examines this question by studying two crucial strategies that
the CCP feels it needs to implement in order to remain in power:
ideological reform and the institutionalization of leadership
succession.
"This book provides the first book-lengthy study focusing on
Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics, in line
with China's open ambition of becoming an AI superpower by 2030.
China's unique domestic politics has developed distinct
characteristics for its AI approach. By analysing national
strategy, security and governance aspects of AI in China, this book
argues that China's AI approach is sophisticated and multifaceted,
and it has brought about both considerable benefits and challenges
to China. First, many characterize China's AI approach as a
nationally concerted top-down geopolitical strategy to advance
Beijing's unified objective. This book argues that this view is
mistaken. It shows that China's AI politics is largely shaped by
economically rather than geopolitically motivated domestic
stakeholders. In addition, China's national AI plan is an upgrade
of existing local AI initiatives to the national level, reflecting
a bottom-up development. Thus, China's AI strategy is more of a
political manifesto rather than a concrete policy plan. The second
part of the book discusses how the Chinese central government has
been securitizing AI in order to mobilize local states, market
actors, intellectuals and the general public. This security
discourse is built on China's historical anxieties about
technology, regime security needs and the growing tension caused by
great power competition. Despite its help in convincing domestic
actors, however, this securitization trend may undermine key AI
objectives. The third part of the book studies the Chinese
governance approach to the use of AI. It argues that China's bold
AI practices are part of its broad and incoherent adaptation
strategy to governance by digital means. AI is part of a digital
technology package that the Chinese authoritarian regime has
actively employed not only to improve public services but also to
strengthen its authoritarian governance. While China's AI progress
benefits from its unique political and social environment, its
ambitious AI plan contains considerable risks. China's approach is
gambling on its success in (a) delivering a booming AI economy, (b)
ensuring a smooth social transformation to the age of AI, and (c)
proving ideological superiority of its authoritarian and communist
values. This book suggests that a more accurate understanding of AI
with Chinese characteristics is essential in order to inform the
debate regarding what lessons can be learnt from China's AI
approach and how to respond to China's rise as the AI leader if not
superpower."
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