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Default China’s Peaceful Rise: Myth or Reality?

[FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="5"]International Politics is a nasty game where peaceful survival of states is a romantic dream, their interests and concerns made them aggressive and antagonistic. To achieve the national interest, states adopts the belligerent policies and sometime follow the hard line under the cover of diplomacy. There is an analysis that China is the next emerging economic power and stated that China’s rise is peaceful because china is following the concept of harmonious world. While there is so much in the debate that China will continue the concept of peaceful rise and harmonious world in its future policies, particularly settling its territorial disputes? As China have chilly relations with the Japan, because both the countries having territorial and Island disputes on South China Sea and East china Sea. China also do not having good relations with the other regional countries, along with, china is an emerging economic power in the Asia, particularly, and befall a threat to the American Hegemony or bipolarity. On the other side of the coin, to jeopardize China, America is using China’s regional countries like India, Japan, Australia, Russia, and Singapore. Under this situation, where big powers poses peril to each other to accomplish their country’s interest and ensure their hegemony in the international system, how we can envisage or predict that China’s rise will be peaceful and this “Asian Dragon” will go behind the notion of “Harmonious World”?.
From the very beginning China’s manifestation is to be a peace loving and nonviolent nation, further China accomplish its goals and interests, with using diplomatic tactics and strategies regionally and globally. In addition, China has mentioned its foreign policy principles that China will behave peacefully and will remain impulsive in the region and internationally as well to resolve its clashes. It is obvious that the rise of any power tend to generate apprehensions. That is why there was an abrupt change in china’s foreign policy dealings in the year 2010-2011. China’s conduct predominantly in bilateral relationship remain very inflexible, internationally china’s behavior is also not peaceful as dealing with America. Diplomatically we can say both the powers having good terms and cooperative, but in real sense both are consider each other as contender.

Domestic stability and solidity is the most important ingredient for the survival and endurance of any country in the international system. Nevertheless, in case of china, it seems different in a way that china’s peaceful rise will possible at that time when Chinese government will handle domestic peace and stability. There are number of cases registered with parallel rise in rural violence as farmers in China’s landscape protested against the income inequality and corruption. a survey stated that there are some 800 million people are still living in rural areas and there is a massive gap between high income and low income class, this hole creates a class differences and class differences relates to the domestic violence, instability and insecurity. along with, This Rising power also facing environmental and climate change problems, the people living in rural areas, they are facing ominous health care issues and lack of education. On domestic front, there are great implications for china’s peaceful rise policy, because domestically or internally the “emerging Economic Power” having number of concerns and issues which needs attention and consideration.
China, which consider the third largest Economy after America and Japan, now focusing on the military buildup, to modernize its military and increase its security. Therefore, to increase its military and navy personnel on the disputed islands. In fact, China’s move about hard power is in response to the Japan’s military Development, as Japan having alliance with US, which is an alarming situation for the China. Form 90s, China and Japan do not having normal relations, both the Asian States having low economic ties and bitter political dealings which reflect that China’s theory “peaceful rise” seems to an end when talking Sino-Japan relations. A statement comes from Chinese Colonel Liu Mingfu (Chinese National Defence University) which is more haughty and arrogant, he said that “the US “global tiger” and Japanese “Asian wolf” of both “madly biting China”. Claiming that “of all the animals, Chinese people hate the wolf the most”, from the above mentioned statement one can determine the intensity of “hate” among Chinese about Japanese. In such state of affairs, where diplomacy also botched and unsuccessful, so how one can anticipate that China’s peaceful rise is feasible and China will remain nonviolent. Chinese leaders and policy makers believe that other than India, Japan is the only country in Asia, which creates impediments in the way of China’s rise. Furthermore, China also concerned with Japan in term of economy, as Japan is the second largest economy and having more advanced, up to date and refined air and naval potentials. As a result, China-Japan, endless tensions and ongoing disputes weaken their relations and decrease the economic dealings also affected on political relations. This shows the failure of China’s peaceful rise and harmonious world, because China is not behaving in a cooperative manner with its regional and international countries.
In contemporary world, where there is no permanent friend and opponent, most important of all is the national interest and the survival of the state. Therefore, in such order, expecting from states to sustain harmonious world and rise peacefully will be an idealist approach. Whereas, we are living in a realist world, where power maximization, survival and self interest are consider the most significant features for the rise, instead of compromising and cooperating with the other states. It is apparent that societal and global conflicts are inevitable, moreover also evident that in a conflict there will be one winner and one looser. it’s a natural fascination that everyone wants to be a winner, thus peace remain slipshod and states enters in to the race of rivalry and competition with each other, then cooperation, collaboration and compromise remain blur in the picture. We can see, China’s relations within the region are not cooperative, India and Japan is the current paradigm. China having territorial disputes with both the Asian powers, whereas, on one side china project itself not to be interested in expansionism, and on the other side, China having territorial disputes with India and Japan which clearly shows the intentions of the China. China’s peaceful rise is a myth, because China’s thrust of becoming economic giant in particular and hegemonic power in general, changes the attitude of the state with its regional and neighboring countries.

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