Peaceful development as an example of relational behaviour of the PR China within the global governance

Becoming the second world economy and one of the most active, assertive, but vulnerable actors too, China was urged to bring new understanding of the Global Governance. However, that understanding has to be widely accepted by the international community. Hence, China offered international partners peaceful development diplomatic discourse. The first part of the paper is theoretical framework. The definition of our research subject is grounded on relational theory, moral realism theory of international relations and political economic concept of structural power. The second part of the paper tackles the idea of Global Governance and how China perceives it in achieving foreign and domestic policy, security and economic goals. The third part analyses the discourse of peaceful development with focus on strategic reasons that pushed China to pursue it in its foreign policy. This will be helpful to understand why China insists that diplomacy is very much needed activity in its ambitions in becoming the global superpower.