International Hegemony in China\u27s Global Perspective: From Contradictory to Harmonious World

Abstract

This paper will analyze the People Republic of China\u27s (PRC) position toward international hegemony in the context of the PRC\u27s global perspective since its establishment in 1949 until the end of 2018. The study aims to expose China\u27s attempts to oppose this hegemony throughout the Cold War by forming a united front against the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. Furthermore, it aims to clarify why China has abandoned this strategy and has called for a harmonious world since 2005. The study is based on the premise that the more China benefits from the hegemony of the global economic system, the more it will call for a harmonious world and give up opposing international hegemony practiced by other powers.” The study is divided into four sections. The first examines China\u27s position toward American hegemony in the 1950s. The second explains China\u27s worldview of the Intermediate Zone to form a unified front against the hegemony of the superpowers through the 1960s. The third reveales China\u27s attempt to establish this united front through the Chinese Three Worlds strategy which dominated China\u27s Worldview from the 1970s until the end of the Cold War. The fourth section shows the shift in China\u27s attitude toward international hegemony after China has abandoned the idea of traditional provocation against the hegemony of international powers and began to call for a harmonious world , in which China could participate. The researcher uses both the historical and analytical descriptive method to explain this study. The study concluds that China has failed to oppose international hegemony practiced by the two superpowers during the Cold War, and its improved position in the global economic system as an economic and political power after the end of the Cold War has made Beijing seek to expand its network of peaceful relations with all international and regional powers in a hope to create a harmonious world that serves its economic success as well as its global rise

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