"This volume provides a wide-ranging analysis of China's `multidimensional diplomacy' as the means by which to promote `peaceful development' and a `harmonious world,' and its practical influence on China's approach to regional and world affairs. The volume is written by Chinese foreign policy experts and analysts who collectively offer an in-depth and well-structured study on new Chinese foreign policy under Hu Jintao."---Sujian Guo, San Francisco State University
"This is a well-researched and comprehensive study of the new Chinese foreign policy consonant with the harmonious world doctrine of the present Chinese leadership. It presents China's new multidimensional approach to diplomacy across a large part of the world."---Yue-man Yeung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Since the end of the Cold War, the new generation of Chinese leadership has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy that acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing idea of "China's rise" on the global stage, China in the twenty-first century faces a mixture of old and new challenges, including terrorism, hegemonism, and authoritarianism. While Deng Xiaoping combined Taoism, an ancient Chinese philosophy, into "Taoist diplomacy" in response to the hostile international position after the Tiananmen Square incident, China's foreign policy keeps changing, and the multidimensional diplomacy adopted by China can be seen as a consistent theme in Chinese foreign policy in the twenty-first century.
Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China attempts to examine the origins, guiding principles, and sequential outcomes of China's multidimensional diplomacy in the twenty-first century, working under the flag of "peaceful development," "harmonious international order," and "global responsibility." The contributions are grouped into three sections. The first discusses the theoretical foundations of multidimensional diplomacy. The second section turns the analytical focus to China's immediate neighbors in East Asia, and lastly, the book goes beyond the immediate neighborhood of China to the global community.
These chapters explore China's dealings with the countries of Africa, the Gulf, and the South Pacific, and provide other in-depth analyses on China's foreign policy toward Pakistan, Russia, and Japan. This book seeks to significantly shape the knowledge and thinking about China's global interactions in the twenty-first century.
