What are the objectives of China?

Encouraging the economic growth of China through industry, agriculture, handicrafts, transportation and commerce. Cultivating cultural and scientific development of the Chinese people. Strengthening national defense and improving living standards in China.

How is China connected to the rest of the world?

Trade. China has without doubt become a major global player in trade as a supplier and as a market. China became the world’s largest exporter of goods in 2009, and the largest trading nation in goods in 2013. China’s share of global goods trade increased from 1.9 percent in 2000 to 11.4 percent in 2017.

What are China’s motivations for assertive BRI projects and naval buildup in the region?

These interests include state sovereignty, national security, territorial integrity, protecting China’s social stability and political system, and, finally, ensuring continued economic and social development. Three key motivations for the BRI are discerned, closely related to these core interests.

Will China be the next hegemon?

The UK-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) believes that China will overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than as many scholars predicted. This acceleration is partially due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

What is China’s 14th five-year plan?

The 14th five-year plan (FYP), covering the years 2021 to 2025, was officially endorsed by the National People’s Congress (NPC) on 11 March 2021. The Plan is divided into 19 sections and 65 chapters, touching on all aspects of development over the next five years, as well as presenting China’s 2035 vision.

What was Mao’s 5 year plan?

The Great Leap Forward was a five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961. The goal was to modernize the country’s agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies.

What is China’s goal for the belt and road initiative?

It is an effort to develop an expanded, interdependent market for China, grow China’s economic and political power, and create the right conditions for China to build a high technology economy.

What is China’s geopolitical strategy?

China’s primary strategic focus is internal. China has therefore tended to focus inward, but what complicates this is that domestic consumption cannot yet maintain economic growth and that access to global markets is a strategic imperative. China depends on access to sea lanes connected to its eastern ports.

What is China’s geopolitical goal?

China’s geopolitical goal is security. China is a country with frequent disasters. Chinese people have a strong sense of crisis, which is one of the important things that China can continue to this day. The security problem of ancient China was mainly the nomadic people in the north.

What is the geopolitics of East Asia?

The geopolitics of East Asia As soon as he came to power, Xi Jinping’s main objective was to assert Chinese hegemony in East Asia, in every sphere: economic and financial, diplomatic and political, military. No international expansion without consolidation of its regional power.

Is Chinese geopolitics adapting to an uncertain world?

Chinese geopolitics, however, has entered a phase of adaptation to an uncertain world. The conflict between the United States, the established power, and China, a rising power, today largely structures world geopolitics.

Can China expand internationally without consolidation of its regional power?

No international expansion without consolidation of its regional power. Chinese influence can assert itself at its northern borders (Mongolia), but it is limited by Russian power (Siberia), while it is challenged, to the west, by India, the competition in the sub-continent being stiff (especially in Sri Lanka).