The Political Economy of China’s Rising Role in Regional International Organizations: Are There Strategies and Policies of the Chinese Way Considered and Applied?

Abstract

In order to build up a wielding core role in Asia-Pacific region, China with a high intention and purpose tries to approach her surrounding neighboring nations for closer economic alliance as well as provides an opportunity of “South-South cooperation” to gain geographic “win-win” performance and more amicable settlement. It further depicts that China plays an indispensable and irreplaceable role in regional institutionalized construction, which can be considered as the Chinese way for strategic application. Basically, there are three major Chinese approaches of development strategy utilized on regional economic activities in order to accelerate and ascend China’s role on regional and trans-regional international organizations. Those are: (1) to play a role of promoter as booster/accelerator, such as for BRICS and RCEP; (2) to manage a role of active participator as communicator/supporter, such as for APEC and G20, and (3) to act a role of initiator as creator and chieftain, such as for OBORI, SCO, and BAF.