China-s New Foreign Policy Under President Xi Jinping: The Concept of the Great Rejuvenation of Chinese Nation
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Abstract
This article firstly proposes a briefly explanation about the concept the “Great Rejuvenation” of Chinese nation according to President Xi Jinping’s “thought”, and secondly contributes to the debates on the influence of memory in International Relations (IR), by showing how constructed memories of history can significantly impact both national identity and foreign policy. The emergence of China as a great power has been accompanied by the official rhetoric of the China’s Dream of “Great Rejuvenation” (weida fuxing 伟大复兴) as its new foreign policy strategy under the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping in this context of modern and contemporary world politics. Xi Jinping's current rhetoric of a Chinese “Dream of Great Rejuvenation” during this last decade, uses a reinvented history as an asset for the future, linking China's natural progress as a global power with a selective re-reading of its millennial history. Although there are conflicting views among academics and political elites about the exact content of the concept of “Great Rejuvenation”, one of its features is the nostalgia for China's past and its five-thousand-year-old civilization. Considering like the second largest provider of funding among all member countries of the United Nations (UN) and the largest contributor of peacekeepers among the five permanent members of the (UN) Security Council, China is playing an irreplaceable role for the solutions of a series of international hotspot issues, and has become a pillar of strength in safeguarding multilateralism and advancing reform of the international system. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core has shown clearly their ambition at the torch of history and led the whole Party and the Chinese people in forging ahead with determination and an innovative and pioneering “spirit dream” which focus on the realization of “national renewal as a goal”. According to Xi’s thought, all Chinese people of all ethnic groups must join effort to this original aspiration philosophy of the “Great Rejuvenation of Chinese Nation” as historic mission in order to achieve a really national independence and making China prosperous and strong, and this will profoundly change the future of the Chinese nation and the developmental landscape and trends for promoting human progress
Keywords
China’s New Foreign Policy, Xi jinping, Rejuvenation of Chinese Nation
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