Chinas Foreign Policy Contradictions..., Tim Nicholas Ruhlig
Chinas Foreign Policy Contradictions..., Tim Nicholas Ruhlig
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China's Foreign Policy Contradictions
Lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO Policy

Author: Tim Nicholas Ruhlig

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/08/2022


Synopsis

Throughout the post–Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states. Yet as Tim Nicholas Rühlig argues in China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, in recent years they have not actually acted this way. Chinese foreign policy actions fail to match up with official rhetoric, and these inconsistencies—in combination with China's growing power—will have dramatic effects on the future shape of international order.

To explain these contradictions, Rühlig draws from in-depth interviews with party-state officials to explain the foreign policy dynamics and processes of the normally opaque Chinese party-state. He demonstrates how different sources of the Chinese Communist Party's domestic legitimacy compete within the complex and highly fragmented Chinese party-state, resulting in contradictory foreign policies. He focuses on three issue areas: international human rights law and "responsibility to protect" (R2P); China's role in World Trade Organization (WTO) policymaking; and China's evolving relationship with Hong Kong.

In this work, Rühlig shows not only why China's foreign policy is so inconsistent, but why it is likely to contribute to a more particularistic, plural, and fragmented international order in the years to come.

About Tim Nicholas Ruhlig

Tim Nicholas Ruhlig is a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations and an associate fellow with The Swedish Institute of International Affairs analyzing Europe-China relations and Chinese foreign and industrial policy-including high technology and Hong Kong politics. His current projects focus on China's domestic determinants of Chinese foreign policymaking, China's growing footprint in technical standardization, the emerging US-China technology rivalry and its implications for Europe. In addition to his academic research, Ruhlig provides policy advice to European policymakers such as the European Commission. He chairs the working group "high technology and innovation" of the EU-funded COST Action "Europe in China Research Network" (CHERN) and is a member of the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), which he coordinated in 2018.


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