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This chapter examines China’s foreign policies more broadly. We find that most Chinese international relations (IR) scholars are positive and satisfied about China’s foreign policy practices in general and agree that China has become more assertive since the 2008 global financial crisis. Chinese IR scholars give high scores to China’s relationships with Africa, Russia, the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and Latin America but are much less optimistic with respect to China’s relation with India and Japan. While the majority of Chinese scholars in our surveys believed that China should adjust its “keep-a-low-profile” principle and establish military alliances, in their publications we see more diverse and nuanced arguments, calling for these principles to be revised rather than abandoned.

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Feng, H., He, K., Li, X. (2019). On Chinese Foreign Policy and International Relations. In: How China Sees the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0482-2_4

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