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An Alternative Approach to Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping and His Mass-Line Sensibilities 思想与人格的另一种方法：中国国家主席习近平及其群众路线情怀

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251124500073

CHIH-YU Shih

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Explaining China’s Cautious Responses to the Strategic Choices of the Yoon Administration 解释中国对尹政府战略选择的谨慎反应

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251124500085

Dongchan Kim

{"title":"Explaining China’s Cautious Responses to the Strategic Choices of the Yoon Administration","authors":"Dongchan Kim","doi":"10.1142/s1013251124500085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1013251124500085","url":null,"abstract":"The Republic of Korea has long sought to balance its relationship with the United States and China. While the ROK had once experienced retaliation from China when it tried to align closer with the United States, the Yoon Suk-Yeol administration has made a strategic choice to do so openly without suffering any explicit retaliation of the kind that followed the THAAD dispute in 2016. This paper attempts to explain why Beijing is refraining from explicit retaliatory measures against the ROK by analyzing the factors that have constrained China’s choices. It argues that despite evident Chinese concerns over the ROK’s strategic alignment with the United States through groupings like the IPEF and collaboration with NATO, China has not explicitly retaliated against the ROK due to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s personal preoccupation with China’s domestic politics and economic issues in addition to a set of diplomatic priorities that exclude the ROK for the time being and some measure of recognition that retaliation can be counterproductive. This paper concludes by arguing that Beijing will not economically retaliate against the ROK unless it directly infringes on China’s core national interests. While there is a broad range of nominally core national interests where China responds rhetorically, there are fewer over which it retaliates with material measures. Therefore, countries facing potential economic retaliation from China over their foreign policy choices must understand the factors that actually compel China to retaliate economically and determine the extent of this retaliation.","PeriodicalId":274099,"journal":{"name":"Issues & Studies","volume":"9 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141348681","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}

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The Responses of Grassroots Leadership to Rural Environmental Protests in China 中国基层领导对农村环境抗议的回应

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251124500024

Yeju Kang

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The Chinese Diaspora and Its Identity in Southeast Asia: Research Notes from the Perspective of International Politics 东南亚华人华侨及其身份认同：国际政治视角下的研究笔记

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251124500012

Danny Widiatmo, A. Soetjipto, Raden Maisa Yudono

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Critical Analysis of “Divided Nation” Model Applications to China–Taiwan: A Case Study of Germany’s Annexation of Austria in 1938 将 "分裂国家 "模式应用于中国台湾的批判性分析：1938 年德国吞并奥地利案例研究

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251123500091

James Thompson

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Chinese Economic Statecraft in Southeast Asia and Its Uneven Impact in Laos and Cambodia 中国在东南亚的经济国策及其对老挝和柬埔寨的不均衡影响

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.1142/s101325112350011x

Nguyen Cong Tung

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Reframing China’s Territory and Sovereignty in Cyberspace: Exploring Conceptual Territorialization and Claims of Cyber Sovereignty 重塑中国在网络空间的领土和主权：探索概念领土化与网络主权主张

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251123500121

JI-JEN Hwang

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The United States, the European Union, and China: A Global Triangle of Rivalry and Cooperation 美国、欧盟和中国:一个竞争与合作的全球三角

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-06 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251123500078

Edward Haliżak, Aleksandra Jarczewska

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The Quest for Post-Chineseness Among Chinese Indonesian Intellectuals: An Intellectual History Agenda 印尼华人知识分子对后中国性的追求:思想史议程

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251123500066

Harryanto Aryodiguno, C. Shih

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Do Statist Ideology and State-Sponsored Nationalism Intervene in Pakistan’s China Policy? A Neoclassical Realist Perspective 中央集权意识形态和国家支持的民族主义干预了巴基斯坦的对华政策吗?新古典现实主义视角

Issues & Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1142/s101325112350008x

Abdul Razaque Larik, Shahnawaz Mangi, Syed Majid Ali Shah Bukhari

{"title":"Do Statist Ideology and State-Sponsored Nationalism Intervene in Pakistan’s China Policy? A Neoclassical Realist Perspective","authors":"Abdul Razaque Larik, Shahnawaz Mangi, Syed Majid Ali Shah Bukhari","doi":"10.1142/s101325112350008x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s101325112350008x","url":null,"abstract":"In its relations with China from 1972 to 2018, Pakistan has endeavored to extract and mobilize its domestic resources while conducting a foreign policy of balancing under systemic pressures and power disparities. Statist ideology and state-sponsored nationalism have been both useful and influential in this process. While there is abundant literature on ideology, nationalism, and Pakistan’s foreign policy using theoretical foundations, a neoclassical realist approach has yet to be made. This paper seeks guidance from neoclassical realist theory as explored in the works of Taliaferro (2006) and Schweller (2004). We argue that Pakistan’s ties with China have been facilitated domestically by an Islamic statist ideology and anti-Indian state-sponsored nationalism. These both have facilitated internal balancing through the extraction and mobilization of natural resources and emulation while externally they justified Pakistan’s balancing efforts aimed at countering a perceived Indian threat. The nation’s military and civil elites therefore agree on the necessity of closer ties with China.","PeriodicalId":274099,"journal":{"name":"Issues & Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125189985","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}

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