ديپلماسي دفاعي چين

Chinaʹs Defence Diplomacy

Since 1990s, the world has witnessed the growing presence of China on the economic, political and security scenes. The vast range of Chinaʹs economic interests has inevitably tie the Chinese state to the global political and security issues, and as a result, its authorities have abandoned their traditional and Maoist thoughts, adopted a pragmatist approach to global affairs, and thus have sought to establish wider interactions with the international system by all means and methods including defence diplomacy. Given the importance of this issue and future prospects of the rise of China as a major global power in the coming decades, this article will try to elucidate the concept of defence diplomacy and then examine its place, forms and potential trends in the Chinese macro foreign policy orientation. Subsequently, Chinaʹs military relations with the United States, Russia, and other great powers as well as with its neighbouring regions including the Islamic Republic of Iran will be considered, and at the end significant characteristics of Chinese defence diplomacy will be outlined and recapped.