China as A Rising Power: Causes and Implications
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61506//01.00566Keywords:
China, Taiwan, India, Region, Strategic, Indian Ocean, South China Sea, AfghanistanAbstract
The most important development the world has witnessed over the last few decades has been the spectacular rise of China as a new world power. China’s rising significance is multiplied by owing to certain facts such as its economic success, strong military, soft power leverage, revolutionary uncompromised system, visionary leadership and long term economic planning. Nonetheless, Chinese rapid economic growth has accelerated tension since South China Sea and Taiwan continues to haunt the regional stability. Likewise, China’s territorial dispute with India following minor skirmishes in past has altered China’s Foreign Policy tilt in favor of other regional actors. This study undertakes China as a rising power and its geo-economics and geo-strategic implications for the region; since it has been argued by some scholars that such rising is not devoid of security risks for the region. The region stability has remained to global power conflict between China and the US, which in no way seems to bring a thaw between the two ahead in the future. The methodology undertaken for this study is qualitative, descriptive and analytical, which is based on secondary sources. Long before, China was deemed as a regional actor, now it has placed itself in the epicenter of global system- which is from realist perspective driven by power- politics. Apart from economic emergence, China also builds resistance capabilities to the US Asia-Pivot policy and caters her influence in region.
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