Journal Article

The 'China's dream' - the grand strategy of transforming China into a global Maritime power

Popescu, Alba Iulia Catrinel

2024

Overview

The 'China's Dream', the name by which China's Grand Political-Military Strategy is known, continues to incite the minds of theorists. But, most of them prefer to analyse China's actions at the tactical level, omitting to show the big picture of the strategy that coordinates all these actions. Actions that aim to put China back on the imperial pedestal from which it was lowered many hundreds of years ago, due to a combination of economic, political and military factors. So, this article aims to present the ends and ways of the Grand Hegemonic Strategy to transform China into a global maritime power. Status that comes to complete China's already existing continental power, in a new hegemonic, continental-maritime format. In this regard, the article uses the geopolitical research method, which combines analysis-synthesis with retrospective and inductive-deductive analysis. The data used are exclusively from open sources, and the research design is linear, starting with the formulation of the working hypothesis, continuing with data collection, analysis and synthesis, and ending with conclusions.

• Publisher: Cogent,Taylor & Francis Ltd,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: 'China's Dream' / Action / Asian Politics / Asian Studies / Belt and Road Initiative / Chinese Politics / community of shared destiny / Data collection / Dialectics / Economic factors / Geopolitics / Global Civilization Initiative / Global economy / Global Security Initiative / Grand Strategy / Hegemony / Human Geography / Hypotheses / International Politics / International Relations / Military & Strategic Studies / Military strategy / Political Studies / Politics / Power / Realism / Research design / Research methodology / Science / Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns / Ships / Social sciences / South East Asian Politics / Strategies / string of pearls / Theorists