Conference Program

Recently, China has made more progress in improving bilateral relations with countries while at the same time increasingly strengthening its position as the strongest competitor to the United States dominance in the world. China’s ability to manage global health diplomacy during COVID-19 extensively and tactically has played a role in this increase. This success is due not only to the Western world’s inability to handle these global problems but also to the character and ways of dealing between China and its partner countries that are acceptable to both parties, which to some extent also show mutual benefit and common interests. In the realm of debate between statuesque and revisionist, this study argues that instead of agree with the idea that China’s rising power should to challenge existing international norms, China tends to be more as a post revisionist towards international norms. To explain this, we will examine: firstly, the platform or mechanism used by China in distributing aid and cooperation; secondly is China’s claims of benevolence or responsibility for the interests of recipient countries; and thirdly, the efficiency of its assistance and cooperation.

This article aims to demonstrate a link between the rise of China and the US-Iranian conflict, from a US point of view. To demonstrate this link, the article relies on the Relational Content Analysis method, analysing American reports and official data. It concludes that there is a correlation indicating that, the more China rises and the greater the Chinese threat to the USA, the more changes (will) occur in the US-Iranian conflict, and the more intensive US actions in regard to the conflict – be this in the form of either the imposition of sanctions and use of pressure against Iran, or else efforts to reach an agreement and settlement. As it notes and observes the correlation in question, this article also highlights the difference between the pre-2012 Iran (a regional threat to US interests in the Middle East) and the post-2012 version (shaped as China rose to become a major threat to America, and encouraged Iran into a rapprochement ensuring its status as an element of the broader Chinese threat to America's global standing). Observation of the aforementioned correlation thus suggests a possibility that China’s rise – and threat posed to the USA – has become a main driver behind the US-Iranian conflict. On the one hand, Iran has become an appropriate gateway through which China may increase its influence in the Middle East and undermine US hegemony there. On the other hand, the US is trying to contain China's influence in the Middle East through Iran.

As China increasingly engages in the international climate field, it brings along ideas such as building an "ecological civilization," a "harmonious society," and a "community with a shared future for mankind." These framings point to a specific Chinese vision of a green world order, which has the environment at its substantial core and China at its political center. Moreover, these ideas have been sustained by significant advances in green technologies, which have provided China with economic power in addition to the symbolic rhetoric of those framings. Therefore, such concepts not only shape assumptions and worldviews but also have practical political implications for global environmental politics and climate governance. Using content analysis to examine official documents, speeches, statements, and interviews, this article empirically demonstrates how technology lies at the heart of China’s future vision for a green world order and assesses how this conception affects global cooperation in climate change. Theoretically, it uses the sociotechnical imaginaries framework combined with the literature on global climate cooperation. By bridging these two approaches, the research also aims to contribute to the theoretical advances in the field of climate cooperation by bringing technology and the different imaginaries of world order to the discussion.