CHINA: DOMESTIC SOURCES OF FOREIGN POLICY

• INTERNAL ORDER AND PROSPERITY ARE KEYS TO EXTERNAL STRENGTH AND LEGITIMACY.  (Nei luan wai huan).

• RESOURCE NEEDS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

• NATIONALISM: UNIFICATION, PRESTIGE, SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE.

• BUREAUCRATIC AND OTHER DOMESTIC POLITICAL INFLUENCES.

• INTERNAL INSECURITIES: ENVIRONMENT, LABOR, DRUGS, ETHNIC UNREST.

• ALLOCATION OF BUDGET RESOURCES.

• INTERDEPENDENCE: RELIANCE ON OTHER COUNTRIES FOR DEVELOPMENT.

• STAKE IN STABLE WORLD ORDER.

• DECENTRALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION.

• GROWING COSMOPOLITANISM OF POPULATION.

External Influences on Domestic PRC Policymaking

·      “A PEACEFUL INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT”

·      PROTECTING MARKETS

·      MAINTAINING STRONG CURRENCY

·      SUSTAINING IDEOLOGY (“PEACEFUL EVOLUTION”)

·      ACQUIRING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

·      DEALING WITH “HEGEMONISTS” AND OTHER ENEMIES

·      ACTING AS THIRD WORLD LEADER AND GOOD GLOBAL CITIZEN

GROUP QUESTIONS FOR WK. 4, CHINA

1 & 2.  DEBATE: “China’s record on human rights and political reform is poor and reforms are needed”; vs. “China has made great strides and insists on noninterference.”

(Is a US-PRC bargain on pol reform possible, as Harding maintains?  See p. 168).

CF. Lieberthal’s bureaucratic approach, which suggests domestic obstacles to bargaining.

3.  What do the chapters in Vogel suggest are China’s most important national-security concerns, now and in the future?  (Discuss food, energy, technology, environmental protection.)

4. Does China prove the case for econ prosperity (incl FDI) leading to political reform and a peaceful foreign policy?  (IE, the MNC-Clinton argument, p. 194 in Vogel.)

5. Discuss the plusses and minusses of a US nuclear power plant sale to China.