An Assessment of China’s Narrative towards United States: A Case Study of Xi Jinping Era

Abstract

With the advent of Xi Jinping in Chinese politics as the President of the Peoples Republic of China the country marked a new chapter in the history of China’s Political trajectory and a pivotal moment of multifaceted economic reforms initiated in China. The most significant change transpired in the conventional formats of China’s Foreign Policy and Beijing’s mainstream foreign relations altered with the outside world in which President Jinping introduced his vision of connecting the whole world through creating an international network of different trade routes. The leading intellectual circles of international community have translated the economic vision of President Jinping as an earthquake for the entire international system where the existing patterns of great power politics have shaken.On the other hand, Washington has treated the economic policies of China under the leadership of Jinping as a Beijing’s way of challenging America-centric unipolar designs of international. In other words, it is a Chinese attempt of altering the Post- Cold War Power Politics of the International System where the Soviet-less world was under American dominance. In this way, the leading Chinese government authorities have decided to change the American supremacy in the world through different state narratives which have added a new layer of politics in the existing great power politics. Thus, China’s actions for the US under Jinping’s regime has been selected as an appropriate case-study in which Beijing’s mix approach have been identified as a central point of argument in this research. Chinese state authorities have preferred to adopt a mix approach for the US with the objective of creating a balance between competition, collaboration, and geo-strategic competition, whereas the United States has shaped its several strategic moves to contain Chinese in the geoeconomic competition of the world. The response of China emerges from the its geo-economic interests which convinced Beijing to avoid the geo-strategic confrontational designs of US while focusing on merely on its economic progress. The minor geo-strategic response of China can be measured in the Pacific Region generally, and South China Sea particularly where the United States is the main contestant of China, parallel to having a network of its bilateral and multilateral alliances to counter Chinese economic rise. In addition to making anti-China bilateral alliances with India, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, the American policies have created certain multilateral alliances such as Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) and AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom and United States). Therefore, at its core the central theme of this research hinges on the conception of US-China competition and its changing attributes which are inherited in Xi Jinping’s vision of a mixed approach towards Washington. The qualitative reasoning approach in this research made its arguments descriptive and analytical while mainly relying on combination of primary and secondary data sources.