Most blogs are just some random people telling you everything you never wanted to know about their mundane lives. To my knowledge, everyday they tell you more tedious details until you just become detached from the entire subject matter. As a result, you end up with a lot of floating blogs without much purpose or direction. My blog will attempt to be the exact opposite. I am challenging myself to write about Chinese international affairs in the most fascinating approach I can think of, which is a chronological reflection of how I understand Chinese international affairs in an anonymous blog.
By no means I am an expert on Chinese international affairs, but my credentials are sufficient enough to analyze the rapid rise of China. With a strong emphasis on the role of world affairs as a crucial part of this process, this blog is intended to explore and familiarize historical, conceptual, and contemporary issues and trends as they relate to Chinese behavior in international affairs. Furthermore, this blog will evaluate how the Chinese government approaches, internalizes and negotiates its changing role in the world. Although this blog will inevitably reference academic journals, Chinese and American media sources, and other outlets it will be explained for a general audience to understand how China perceive itself in a globalized world. The understanding and prediction of China’s current and future general behavior in international affairs as stated before will chronicle my own comprehension throughout this semester.
Under this blog experiment, I hope to gain insight on how Chinese see their foreign policy and their place in the world different from non-Chinese. The variables that will be conducted are looking at Chinese policies, principles, party congress, worldview and national identity. By understanding these variables, the potential of understanding the values China incorporated into their policies that allowed them to develop into influential juggernaut will help outsiders discover key elements necessary to understand China. This will guarantee a minimal bias perspective on Chinese international affairs. In addition, I will draw upon my own travels to China to contextualize how Chinese citizens see their place in the world and the domestic affairs.
My main goal for this blog is to create an opportunity for those who are interested in Chinese international affairs to learn about it more informally. To accomplish this, a lot of unnecessary jargon will be omitted to make it more accessible to people. In both the United States and China, the media explores the role of the Chinese government in succeeding or lacking in shaping international affairs. In the United States I will explore that further by looking at U.S. propaganda of China and vice-versa. I will be referencing both American and Chinese news articles that seem to explore the Chinese phenomena in recent years. Finally, I will get a chance to interact and ask questions of Chinese and American students and faculty, where I hope I can find out more about their perspective and their relationship China. The principal goal of this blog as commented earlier, is to sharpen the readers’ understanding of China’s present and future view on their leading role in international affairs.
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