Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00094455231152902
Manish, P. Kaushik
Though long in the offing, US withdrawal from Afghanistan became a reality with the signing of the Doha Agreement on 29 February 2020, ultimately leading to the establishment of Taliban 2.0 in Kabul. The unravelling of the two-decade-old US-led war and reconstruction effort in Afghanistan led to a long-predicted scramble among the regional powers to fill the vacuum created by US withdrawal and threw up a plethora of intriguing questions, particularly regarding China’s role and interests in the region. This article seeks to understand and analyze China’s ever-growing engagement in Afghanistan through the paradigm of Realism, arguing that China has long-term geo-strategic and geo-economic interests in the region which requires it to coordinate more closely with Pakistan and Iran and innovate diplomatically. This article is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on China’s interests in Afghanistan viz. BRI-CPEC extension in Afghanistan, rare earth, and the need to ensure peace and stability. The second section assesses China’s response to the emerging situation by focusing on China’s engagement with the Taliban 2.0 and co-opting of Pakistan and Iran for safeguarding its long-term interests. This article concludes while looking at the position of India in the gamut.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00094455231155806
A. Kuteleva
As the Chinese state ramps up its efforts in international narrative competitions, Chinese media master new genres and test different visual languages on global social media platforms. The diverse content they produce provides a new source of information about China’s self-representations intended for foreigners and thus provides a condensed answer to one of the key questions of China’s foreign policy: Who is China? It also responds to the question that many observers outside of China pose: What does China’s rise mean for the rest of the world? To explain how Chinese state media use new mediums to (re)imagine China and narrate its relations with the world, this study focuses on the entertainment visual content they posted on YouTube between 2013 and 2019 to introduce and endorse Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI). Using a critical discursive methodology, it decodes text-visual frames created by Chinese media to bring to the fore components of BRI’s discursive politics that are imperceptible in formal diplomatic communications.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00094455231155205
A. Karmazin
I discuss changes in the character and mechanisms of rule in the China–Hong Kong relationship after the promulgation of the Hong Kong National Security Law (HKNSL). I focus on the broader impacts of this particular legal norm on political order. By building on institutionalist theories of direct and indirect rule, I argue that HKNSL and the following changes brought about a compounded (amalgamated) type of rule of China over Hong Kong. It is based on a blend of aspects and mechanisms that do not account for direct governance in the full sense but utilise some elements of it. The post-HKNSL situation entangles new ruling mechanisms with those that had existed previously but were updated and strengthened in the post-HKNSL aftermath.
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{"title":"Book review: Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China","authors":"Ravi Bhoothalingam","doi":"10.1177/00094455221132633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00094455221132633","url":null,"abstract":"Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China (Allen Lane, 2022), pp. 336, ₹1677. ISBN: 9780241295854.","PeriodicalId":44314,"journal":{"name":"China Report","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45715437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1177/00094455221132635
R. Ranjith Kumar
Roger Faligot, Chinese Spies from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping (Translated from French by Natasha Lehrer) (United Kingdom/Australia and New Zealand: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd/Scribe, 2019) pp. 528, A$39.99. ISBN (13) 9781925849639; ISBN (13) 9781925548679 (e-book).
Isbn (13) 9781925849639;ISBN(13) 9781925548679(电子书)。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1177/00094455221128349
James MacHaffie
China and Russia have a demonstrable record of coordinating their votes at the United Nations Security Council over the past 12 years. China, in particular, has coordinated its vetoes to align with Russia, while Russia still uses its veto in isolation of other states, except for Chinese abstentions. It is widely acknowledged in the literature on Chinese–Russian foreign relations that the two states are in a strategic partnership; however, there is open debate as to how long this partnership can be sustained. Both China and Russia seem to value the partnership, but trust-building is needed to sustain it due to the growing power imbalance between them. One way that trust can be built is through costly signalling, which provides reassurances to the receiving state that the signaller has benign intentions. This article argues that China is engaged in costly signalling to Russia by aligning its votes with Moscow at the expense of angering the other permanent members of the Security Council—the United States, France and the United Kingdom—which in turn sours the relations between them. China is attempting to reassure Russia, the weaker partner, that it still values their friendship, and Russia has reciprocated by relying more on China.
{"title":"Russian–Chinese Cooperation at the United Nations Security Council: Costly Signalling and Trust Building in the Strategic Partnership","authors":"James MacHaffie","doi":"10.1177/00094455221128349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00094455221128349","url":null,"abstract":"China and Russia have a demonstrable record of coordinating their votes at the United Nations Security Council over the past 12 years. China, in particular, has coordinated its vetoes to align with Russia, while Russia still uses its veto in isolation of other states, except for Chinese abstentions. It is widely acknowledged in the literature on Chinese–Russian foreign relations that the two states are in a strategic partnership; however, there is open debate as to how long this partnership can be sustained. Both China and Russia seem to value the partnership, but trust-building is needed to sustain it due to the growing power imbalance between them. One way that trust can be built is through costly signalling, which provides reassurances to the receiving state that the signaller has benign intentions. This article argues that China is engaged in costly signalling to Russia by aligning its votes with Moscow at the expense of angering the other permanent members of the Security Council—the United States, France and the United Kingdom—which in turn sours the relations between them. China is attempting to reassure Russia, the weaker partner, that it still values their friendship, and Russia has reciprocated by relying more on China.","PeriodicalId":44314,"journal":{"name":"China Report","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48433224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1177/00094455221128351
Avinash Paliwal
Stanly Johny and Ananth Krishnan, Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics (HarperCollins India, 2022) pp. 304, ₹450. ISBN10 9354895212; ISBN13 9789354H895210.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-25DOI: 10.1177/00094455221128350
Kishan S. Rana
Hiroshi Hirabayashi, India: The Last Superpower (New Delhi: Aleph, 2021), pp. 203 + xvii, ₹699. ISBN 978-93-90652-34-1 (Translated from the Japanese by Prem Motwani)
{"title":"Book review: Hiroshi Hirabayashi, India: The Last Superpower","authors":"Kishan S. Rana","doi":"10.1177/00094455221128350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00094455221128350","url":null,"abstract":"Hiroshi Hirabayashi, India: The Last Superpower (New Delhi: Aleph, 2021), pp. 203 + xvii, ₹699. ISBN 978-93-90652-34-1 (Translated from the Japanese by Prem Motwani)","PeriodicalId":44314,"journal":{"name":"China Report","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46821318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Harsh V. Pant, ed., China Ascendant: Its Rise and Implications","authors":"S. Singh","doi":"10.1177/00094455221128901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00094455221128901","url":null,"abstract":"Harsh V. Pant, ed., China Ascendant: Its Rise and Implications (New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2019), pp. 358, ₹699 (HB). ISBN 978-9-353-57063-7","PeriodicalId":44314,"journal":{"name":"China Report","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47474153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1177/00094455221082514
Devi Nandana
Rush Doshi, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2021), pp. 336, ISBN: 978-0197527917.
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