China’s foreign policy comes of age?

Abstract

Although China has acquired new weight in world affairs, its foreign policy is driven primarily by domestic considerations. This is true of China’s approach to international norms, where it largely resists the case for humanitarian intervention as accepted by most of the international community. The Chinese government still adheres to the doctrine of non-interference, albeit with some flexibility, when its prestige as a responsible great power may be at stake. Its management of regional security issues is conducted with a wary eye to the intense nationalism evident among the educated young at home. China’s deepening economic interdependence with the outside world is raising new problems for China and its main trading partners as their respective societies become more deeply engaged with each other. © 2007, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.