Peaceful to Aggressive - China's shifting geopolitics !!

Xi Jinping’s predecessors had assured that China’s growth won’t possess the world and its Asian neighbor’s any threat. This was termed as “Peaceful development policy”. But recent activities by china show a clear shift from peaceful development to aggressive development.

China’ relation with the world

USA – trade disputes; USA’s allegation on china of mishandling Covid-19 issue; the USA becoming one of the founding members of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance against China.

Taiwan – continuous invasion of Taiwan’s airspace using its fighter jets.

South China Sea – setting up of Administrative Centre in Paracel Island

Australia – Trade disputes

Sweden – China for long has detained a Swedish author

Hong Kong – It’s protesting against china for passing a new bill which would give china more administrative power over Hong Kong.

India – Disputes over the LAC ( Naku La pass, Pangong Tso lake; Galwan valley)

Reasons for such a shift?

· Political cause: recently due to covid-19 outbreak china has not only been facing the heat externally from various countries but also internally with repeated protest

· Economically: Although china had been registering growth in the first decades of the 21st century, its population still is agriculture-dependent (almost 48%), due to the covid-19 outbreak its GDP has been shrinking continuously. Malnutrition is widespread in China.

· International issue: various western countries along with the USA have formed Inter-Parliamentary Alliance to counter china; Since a long time USA-China have been embroiled in trade disputes

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China’ Aim**

· China in order to become a major power by 2049 wants to grow rapidly during the first two decades of the 21st century.

· Since Xi Jinping, 2013 China has a new slogan of China Dream and to make it great and leader in world politics.