China and its role in the new world arrangement

3. China - today
• China in the world

4. China - today
China - neighbors

5. China
 Population:
• 1,307.560,000
 Territory:
• 3,705,386 sq. miles
 Year of PRC Inauguration:
• 1949
 Year of Current Constitution:
• 1982
 Head of Party and State:
• Xi Jinping(president)
 Head of Government:
• Li Keqiang(premier)
 Language:
• Standard Chinese or Mandarin
(Putonghua, based on the Beijing
dialect)
• Yue (Cantonese)
• Wu (Shanghaiese)
• Minbei (Fuzhou)
• Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese)
• Xiang
• Gan
• Hakka dialects
• Minority languages

6. China – a Rising Power
• Economy
• Military
• Population/education
• Urbanization
• World influence

7. China
• People’s Republic of China
• Communist Party
• Han-Chinese (93%)
• Great Power or Superpower?

8. Historical principles of Chinese foreign policy
Two tendencies:
• Coherence
• Changes
• Influence: history, geography, culture, nations
• Maoism and its specifics

9. Historical periods
Four essential:
1. Empires – up to ca 1840
2. Humiliation – 1840-1940
3. Maoism – 1945-1976
4. Modernization – 1976 - ...

10. Foreign policy – historical scheme
• Empires and humiliation – less, perhaps end of
19th and the beginning of 20th century. “Open
doors” - diplomacy
III.period: maoism
• Civil war: 1945-1949
• Mao and revolutions – peasants

11. Foreign policy – historical scheme
Maoism:
1. K.Marx – “class theory”
2. V.Lenin – “theory of imperialism”
3. As a Chinese - interpreted all from the angle of
“China’s history”

12. CHINA - art

13. Foreign policy – historical scheme
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