CHINA’S STRATEGIC THINKING FEATURES AND ITS GRAND STRATEGY CLARIFICATION
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Abstract
This paper is the first part on the vast issue of China’s Grand Strategy. It elaborates on Chinese strategic thinking distinctive features, seeking to clarify the country’s Grand Strategy type. Whereas China has been constantly growing for last decades and is supposed to pop up as the first world economy soon, it is of high importance for Ukraine and its decisionmakers to know the essence of Chinese Grand Strategy and the challenges of understanding China’s strategic thought. The article discloses the general theoretical concept of Grand Strategy as well. Such knowledge will be useful for Kyiv and required in terms of trade cooperation with Beijing necessity as well as postwar global order reformatting, where China is going to abandon the usual role of liberal world order “assembly plant”, and become an important actor across geopolitical and geoeconomic domains in new arising multipolar global architecture. Chinese Grand Strategy is being altered right now, entering its new stage and changing its tools. Beijing has been preparing for this during decades after the Global Financial Crisis, Brexit, Crimea annexation, COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion to Ukraine: in 2023 China has already become a Mediator between Iran and Saudi Arabia, thus effectively increased its international influence in the Middle East. The actuality of this topic is emphasized by given unpleasantness for Kyiv due to China’s neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine war. Therefore, the author elucidates why Beijing did not support Kyiv amid Moscow’s invasion. Nowadays Beijing’s consideration comes through the lens of Chinese own geostrategic clash with the USA over regional and global leadership. Now Beijing, a truly hardheaded realist strategic thinking actor, views Ukraine as the subject of ruthless great-power confrontation and unfortunately doesn’t condemn Russia for military aggression.
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China, Chinese grand strategy, Chinese strategic thinking, grand strategy clarification.
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