China's Diplomacy

China's diplomacy over the past 60 years can be divided into two periods with 1978 as the watershed. In the first 30 years (1949 1978), the focus of China's diplomatic tasks was to oppose the threat from big powers, consolidate national independence, and safeguard sovereignty and territorial integrity. However, since its opening up and reform in 1978, China has re-oriented its diplomacy to create an external environment conducive to its domestic economic development in the midst of the changing international situation. This book reviews the history of China's diplomacy since 1949, sums up its characteristics shown in different periods, and argues that China cannot develop without the world and the world cannot become prosperous without China. The book also elaborates on China's independent foreign policy of peace that aims at world peace and common development.


About the Author

Zhang Qingmin, a JD Doctor of Laws and professor of International Relations at Peking University where he lectures on Diplomacy of Contemporary China and Diplomatic Policy Analysis in both English and Chinese and teaches English in Diplomacy. His publications include A Reader on China s Foreign Relations, Contemporary China and Its Foreign Policy, 50 Years of Sino-American and Sino-Japanese Relations (co-author and editor) , Policy Studies of US Arms Sales to Taiwan: from the Perspective of Decision Making.

 

 

 

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