Qian Qichen played a direct role in some of the most dramatic moments in recent Chinese history -- including standoffs, efforts to build alliances, and historic summits -- and here he recounts these episodes from behind the scenes. Having witnessed and influenced high-powered political crossroads, he shows just how global relationships are delicately maintained through rarely seen negotiations. Qichen's remembrance covers world-changing events, including the thawing of China's relationship with the Soviet Union; Nelson Mandela's visit to China after his release from prison; the normalization of Sino-Indonesian relations; and the transfer of Hong Kong. As China continues to rise on the world stage, Qichen offers an inside look at its politics and relationships to other countries, helping us understand the past, present, and future of one of the world's greatest powers.

This book takes an in-depth look at China’s diplomacy in the New Era under the leadership of Xi Jinping. It begins with the analysis of China’s rise and world transformation, the connotations of China’s New Era and its new world ideal as “Community of Shared Future for Mankind” and then presents Xi Jinping’s grand strategy by analyzing his new ideas on the governance of China and global governance, theory and practice of China’s diplomacy in the New Era. Key concepts and innovation cases in China's diplomacy around security, BRI, opening-up strategy, and its strategic approach to the USA are introduced as well, which builds an overview of China's diplomacy.

With the second-largest economy and rapidly growing military strength, China is now an emerging regional and global super power, which makes it confronted with a sudden increase in opportunities, pressures and conflicts in terms of international issues. This book gives a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the development of China’s diplomatic strategies since 1980s, which have been changed approximately every ten years to cope with the complicated and changing international situations. In 1980s, China took "non-alignment" to create a solid external environment for the reform and opening-up which had just been initiated. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, upheaval in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War in 1990s, China adopted the principle of "keeping a low profile and making some contributions", to adhere to the road of socialism while avoid making enemies. Nowadays, due to the continuous enhancement of national power and international status, China replaces "making some contributions" with "making positive actions", to get more actively involved in international affairs. This book will be a valuable reference for studies in China’s diplomacy and international relations. Readers interested in contemporary China will also be attracted by it.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the Communist Party of China's approach to diplomacy, through an extensive evaluation of the major practices and theories behind the Party's diplomacy, with its main achievements in its 90 years of diplomacy highlighted. It delves into the views held by the Communist Party of China on the changing times, the international system, national interests, and developments in China's diplomacy. Other topics covered at length include China's traditional and non-traditional diplomatic practices as well as basic characteristics of the Party's diplomacy. Few books have touched on the Communist Party of China's diplomatic history in detail. China's Diplomacy: Theory and Practice fills the gap by shedding insights on the Communist Party of China's global strategies and diplomatic planning, contributing to the building an international relations theory with Chinese characteristics. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of China's international relations from the forward-looking analyses on the Party's core role in leading China's diplomacy, and the theoretical explanations behind the practices. Contents:Leadership and Achievements of the CPC in China's Diplomacy (YANG Jiemian)Theory:The Concept of the Times and the Foreign Policy of China (YE Qing)The Concept of the International System and China's Foreign Policy (ZHANG Pei)The Concept of National Interests (LIU Zongyi)Scientific Outlook on Development and China's Diplomacy (ZHANG Haibing)Practice:Traditional Deployments of China's Diplomacy (ZHANG Chun)China's Diplomacy in Non-traditional Areas (YU Hongyuan)Party Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics (NIU Haibin)CPC Advancing with the Times: Future Prospects of China's Diplomacy (YANG Jiemian) Readership: Graduates, researchers, academics and professionals interested in China's diplomacy, international relations, and political science. Keywords:Theory;Politics;International Relations;China's Diplomacy;Communist Party of ChinaKey Features:Offers a comprehensive review of the Communist Party of China's diplomatic historySheds insights on the Party's global strategy and diplomatic planningExamines the Party's core role in leading China's diplomacy through theoretical, forward-looking analysesReviews: “This phenomenal volume provides distinctive viewpoints of the Communist Party of China on international politics and China's foreign relations. For those who are interested in how China's diplomacy has evolved from carrying out a ‘revolutionary line’ to pursuing the ‘path of peaceful development’, this is a must-read.” Wang Jisi Dean of the School of International Studies Peking University “This comprehensive volume seeks to lay out the ‘leadership and achievements of the Communist Party of China in China's diplomacy’. It takes a multifaceted approach, deeply rooted in the entire history of the CPC. For a foreign reader, perhaps this book's greatest value lies in its detailed explication of a Chinese perspective on the Party's diplomatic theories and practice over the past ninety years. As such, it provides many valuable insights.” Kenneth Lieberthal Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution “The book on China's foreign policies is a unique instrument not only to know but also to understand China. It is a guide for knowing the past and informing the future.” Mr Romano Prodi former President of the European Commission and Italy's former Prime Minister

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi demonstrates that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a global hegemon. Drawing from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents and memoirs by party leaders, he traces the basic evolution of Chinese strategy, showing how it evolved in response to changes in US policy and the US's position in the world order.

In the 1980s, Britain actively engaged with China in order to promote globalisation and manage Hong Kong’s decolonisation. Influenced by neoliberalism, Margaret Thatcher saw Britain as a global trading nation, which was well placed to serve China’s reform. During the negotiations over Hong Kong’s future, British diplomats aimed to educate the Chinese in free-market capitalism. Nevertheless, Deng Xiaoping held an alternative vision of globalisation, one that privileged sovereignty and socialism over market liberalism and democracy. By drawing extensively upon the declassified British archives along with Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong’s future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984 but suffered a setback as a result of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British diplomacy of ‘educating’ China yielded mixed results.

Bringing together Chinese and Western scholars of diplomacy, this book highlights the view that China's 'new' diplomacy is an instrument of foreign policy, a socialising process that fosters both positive and negative change and an important indicator of China's future role.