Respected and Suspected: Middle Eastern Perceptions of China’s Rise

Shichor, Yitzhak

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“…This was another step towards China’s growing international recognition and integration, and not just by the United States. Other countries, especially in Central Asia and the Middle East, expected Beijing to increase its involvement in settling regional disputes (Shichor, 2014). However, Beijing adopts a different agenda.…”

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Recognition: China’s Long March to Global Integration

Shichor

2020

China Report

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This paper provides a framework for China’s gradual global integration. From historical exclusion, China became initially and partly incorporated to the world in the 1950s and 1960s while ignored by most of the countries. A quantitative breakthrough in the 1970s has led to a universal recognition, still formal and restricted throughout the 1980s and 1990s, making China a great power by the early twenty-first century. China’s rise and gradual integration in the international community is interpreted here based on Marx’s theory of ownership and Professor Charles Taylor’s theory of recognition. Both regard status as a property which is an outcome not just of a unilateral individual claim but of multilateral social relations. Adapted to the international society, these theories underscore China’s global integration. Therefore, China is now entitled to, and capable of, playing a more active and, moreover, leading global role, not just because of its unilateral claims and remarkable achievements, but also, and perhaps much more, because of its multilateral recognition—not in the formal diplomatic sense—of China’s entitlement and capabilities of doing it. Also, in addition to joining, and occasionally heading, international organisations, China introduced its One Belt One Road initiative as a unique contribution of a model for the West, and especially for less-developed countries. While it is post-Mao China’s domestic reform which attract most international attention and are regarded a revolutionary breakthrough with the past, the real and most innovative breakthrough is China’s integration in the world. Domestic reforms were undertaken throughout Chinese history; international integration is new and unprecedented.

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Recognition: China’s Long March to Global Integration

Shichor

2020

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“…China has emerged over the past decade as a leading exporter of goods and services to the region; a major importer of oil, natural gas and other resource commodities; and a market for capital investment. 83 In 2012, for example, China overtook the United States as the major trading partner of all of the Persian Gulf states. 84 Even in the wake of the Arab Spring, China's diplomacy in the region, John Calabrese argues, is characterized by an almost ruthless pragmatism based on the judgment that "China's future relationship with the state is ultimately more important than its ties with particular regimes.…Chinese officials have kept all options open in order to limit the damage to China's long-term economic interests."…”

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China and the Uyghurs: The “Palestinization” of Xinjiang?

Clarke¹

2015

Middle East Policy

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Explaining China’s popularity in the Middle East and Africa

Friedrichs

2019

Third World Quarterly

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China enjoys considerable popularity in the Middle East and Africa, not only among elites but also at street level. This article draws on international relations theories to explain this general pattern, as well as intra-and interregional variation. Every approach has something to contribute, but international political economy more so than realism. Constructivist theories are particularly useful in explaining China's popularity in the Middle East and Africa. Acknowledgements Thanks to the anonymous reviewers, Raphael Bradenbrink, Ivan Manokha, and the students of the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy for helpful suggestions and feedback.

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Respected and Suspected: Middle Eastern Perceptions of China’s Rise

Cited by 3 publications

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Recognition: China’s Long March to Global Integration

Recognition: China’s Long March to Global Integration

China and the Uyghurs: The “Palestinization” of Xinjiang?

Explaining China’s popularity in the Middle East and Africa

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