The “Good Neighbour Policy” in the Context of China's Foreign Relations

Chinese Nationalism, a False Alarm for Korea-The Case of the Beijing Olympics -

“…And, they need to restrain the whirl of hyper-nationalism from converting into social unrest with such problems as inequality and corruption. In foreign relations, the primary goal is retaining a "harmonious" milieu for approval of China by "others" and for the "peaceful development"; correspondingly, its foreign policy has been embracing "charm offensive" and the "good neighbor policy (mulin youhao zhengce)" [9,11,22]. 29 In this regard, it is predicted that China will by and large continue to compromise moral and idealistic principle for its pragmatism (i.e., political and economic interests) in its foreign behavior when the two are conflicted [55].…”

“…Some of them even suggested a boycott of Korean products. 9 Actually, by this time, the accumulated anti-Korean sentiment had been already visible on the Internet. For example, in late 2007, the Guoji Xianqu Daobao (International Herald Leader), affiliated to the Xinhua News Agency, and the Tianya Shequ (Tianya Club), a popular Internet forum of China, jointly surveyed 12,000 Chinese; 40.1% answered "Korea" to the question, "Which country you don't like much," compared to 30.2% for Japan.…”

“…A 2008 survey of soft power in Asia by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reports that the 1,237 Chinese respondents on the telephone interviews ranked Korea below the United States but higher than Japan in terms of overall soft power [6]. 13 In a survey of more than 3,000 Chinese residents in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Qingdao, 9 Xinhua, 31 July 2008. 10 Xinhuawang (Xinhuanet), 12 December 2007.…”

El paradigma chino en el escenario global

“…El Gigante Oriental desea presentarse al mundo como una "potencia responsable" (Etzioni, 2011), capaz de un "ascenso y desarrollo pacíficos" (heping jueqi, heping fazhan) (B. Zheng, 2006a), a través de un "nuevo concepto de seguridad" (Baiyi, 2001) que fomenta "una sociedad y un mundo armoniosos" (hexie shehui, hexie shijie) (Y. Zheng & Tok, 2007) sobre la base de "buenas políticas de vecindad" (Chung, 2009).…”

Asymmetrical Regionalism: China, Southeast Asia and Uneven Development

“…China's 'good neighbour policy' is one of the most important discursive manifestations of this sensibility. While this idea has been around in some form or other since the earliest days of the PRC's existence, the financial crisis of the late 1990s marked an important and tangible intensification of this policy as China began to prioritise its relationships within the Asia-Pacific generally and with Southeast Asia in particular [19]. China's willingness to play a 'responsible' role in managing the impact of the crisis on the East Asian region-principally by not devaluing its own currency-had a major practical and ideational impact on the region [60].…”