A review of the Article:

“Xi Jinping’s Operational Code Beliefs and China’s Foreign Policy”

by Professor Huiyun Feng & Professor Kai He

Presenter: Phyo Min Kyi

International University of Japan Foreign Policy Analysis Course 2016 Fall

Week 10: Do Great Powers shape the foreign policy behaviours of Third World states? 

Article: He, K., & Feng, H. (2013). Xi Jinping’s Operational Code Beliefs and China’s Foreign Policy. The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 6(3), 209-231.

Outline of the Presentation

• Why this article: “Do Great Powers shape the

foreign policy behaviours of Third World states?” 

• Article

• Presenter conclusion and implementation

Do Great Powers shape the foreign policy behaviours of Third World states? 

- Professor Huiyun Feng(School of Government and International Relations)

- Associate Professor Kai He(School of Government and International Relations)

Griffith University

* When they were writing this article they were at Utah State University.

Authors of the article

GRANTS AND AWARDS: One from 14 - 2014-2016 Co-Principle Investigator for a MacArthur Foundation’s “Asia Security Initiative” Grant (US$ 400,000) “Understanding China’s Rise through the Eyes of China’s IR (International Relations) Scholars.”

http://cjip.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/3/209.full

Outline of the Article

• Three school of thought – Rising China’s F. P (R/L/C)• Operational code beliefs and four types of

Leadership (P.B/ I.B)• Public statements & Speeches analyzing by

statististical method (for four sets of questions)

Xi Jinping 习近平

 Hu Jintao 胡锦涛

Analyzing the China foreign policy from Three POV

China’s rise with regards to regional security since they suggest a revisionist direction of foreign policy for a rising China

China will not upset the existing international system because a status quo-oriented foreign policy best fits China’s interests

Realism emphasizes the role of the nation-state and makes a broad assumption that all nation-states are motivated by national interests, or, at best, national interests disguised as moral concerns.

Liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics. Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others; but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty.

Constructivism is the claim that significant aspects of international relations are historically and socially constructed, rather than inevitable consequences of human nature or other essential characteristics of world politics.

The Game Theory

Example: Prisoner’s Dilemma

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Player I

Player II

Philosophical and instrumental beliefs(toward the same direction)

China foreign policy under Xi