The Chinese Angle of American Foreign Policy: Assessing China’s Manifested, Emerging and Unseen Powers

Abstract

It is not a secret and neither has it needed deep political knowledge to understand that there is a big red rising giant that gains more
and more power day by day.
China – being a Communist, still one of the biggest capitalist states – managed to balance between its harsh political system and
liberal economy which brought it the status of a regional hegemon and took it to the highest economic ranks in the world.
China can be characterized as a unique state in a sense. There are several countries which are also Communist such as Vietnam,
North Korea, or Cuba. So, what is so special about China? The answer may lie inside the method by which once rural China rose to
be a prominent international player in the world.
The vast, one of the largest, free laissez-faire market is the fact that makes China unique. On the one hand there is a strict
Communist system with one leading political party and Communist ideology and on the other hand there is economy similar to
Western standards. The hypothesis that always comes to consideration while thinking about China is that China would not be able
to survive if their market was not opened. With over one billion population and their demand, China had to provide adequate amount
of supply, so it switched to free market economy.
Keywords: Foreign policy, Belt, Road Initiative