Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics

What is it about?

Scholarship on what constitutes the major characteristics of China’s diplomacy lacks a consensus. This paper argues that many of what has been considered the distinct features of China’s diplomacy are the common features of all diplomacy rather than specifically the characteristics of China’s diplomacy. The distinctive characteristics of China’s diplomacy can be understood from historical and cross-national comparison and these characteristics include strong self-consciousness of and emphasis on its distinction, the declining significance of diplomacy accompanied by rise of power, the unified leadership the CCP’s, remarkable cultural feature, and leadership’s personal style.

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