scholarly journals POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DIPLOMACY OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramnath Reghunadhan

In an increasingly multipolar but ‘glocalised’ world, a country's scientific and technological know-how determines its socioeconomic position and strategic disposition, especially related to science, technology and innovation (STI). The STI diplomacy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) developed within a broader political, social and economic environment, which is inherently different from that of Europe and the US. This has had influences from sociocultural, economic and ideational transactions in PRC. The emergence of the ‘new developmental state’, particularly with the rise of digital systems interconnecting and interlinking the PRC and the World. This has accelerated and transformed the emergence of ‘variegated forms of capitalism’ in PRC. Currently, PRC is emerging as a major stakeholder in global STI diplomacy, especially with an increased focus on emergent technologies. Further, the political economy of Chinese foreign policy in acting as a key driver for institutionalizing STI in (like-minded) trading partners will be addressed

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (04-1) ◽  
pp. 122-133
Author(s):  
Ilya Kolesnikov ◽  
Konstantin Kasparyan ◽  
Elena Malyshkina ◽  
Jordan Gjorchev

The article is devoted to the comprehension of changes in foreign policy of Communist China during Mao Zedong's rule - in late 1940s - mid 1970s. The authors investigate the causes and consequences of fundamental changes in the Chinese foreign policy doctrine, taking into account the whole range of objective and subjective factors that led to the deterioration of the Soviet-Chinese relations and the beginning of rapprochement between China and the USA.


1974 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel S. Kim

After having suffered from the self-inflicted wounds of internal convulsions and diplomatic isolation during the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has returned to the world diplomatic scene with a new, vigorous, and imaginative foreign policy. To appreciate its dimensions fully, one must recall that China's foreign policy was left largely unprotected from the disruptive spillovers of the domestic quarrels during the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards not only sacked the British chancery in Peking, but also seized their own Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 1967. By November 1967, forty-four out of forty-five ambassadors were called home for “rectification,” leaving the durable Huang Hua in Cairo as the PRC's sole representative abroad. China's trade also suffered; by the end of September 1967, Peking had been involved in disputes of varying intensity with some thirty-two nations. However, the transition from revolutionary turmoil to pragmatic reconstruction came through a series of decisions made by Mao Tse-tung and his close advisors beginning in late July 1968 and culminating at the First Plenum of the Ninth Party Congress held in April 1969, ushering in a new era in Chinese foreign policy. toward the United Nations may be characterized as one of “love me or leave me, but don't leave me alone,” evolving through the stages of naive optimism, frustration, disenchantment, anger, and lingering envy and hope, the PRC's support of the principles of the United Nations Charter had remained largely unaffected from 1945 to 1964. However, the Indonesian withdrawal on January 7, 1965, triggered off a process of negative polemics against the United Nations. Indeed, Peking's bill of complaints against the United Nations was broad and sweeping: that blind faith in the United Nations had to be stopped because the organization was by no means sacred and inviolable; that by committing sins of commission and omission, the United Nations had become an adjunct of the U.S. State Department; that the United Nations had become a channel for United States economic and cultural penetration into Asian, African, and Latin American countries; and that the United Nations in the final analysis was a paper tiger.


1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Turpin ◽  
Yanhua Lian ◽  
Jian Tong ◽  
Xin Fang

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