China's new foreign policy

What is it about?

This chapter focuses on the growing impact of North Africa and Middle East instability on China's strategic interests. A shift of China's traditional foreign policy paradigm seems in fact undergoing as a consequence of the US rebalancing in Asia-Pacific and the growing Chinese dependence on continental resources and stability. This chapter will try to identify this trend through a critical assessment of the most recent scholarly debate among Chinese experts from several key academic and institutional centers. The chapter will conclude by identifying some medium term trends in the evolution of Chinese strategy in the Middle East and North Africa region and the potential for growing cooperation with Europe and the United States in the area.

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Why is it important?

An original overview of China's internal debate on the new form of its foreign policy

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