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Chinese style game; How is Beijing changing the world order? – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news



According to the Mehr News Agency, in a detailed report, the “americanmilitarynews” website discussed China’s actions in the direction of mediation at the world level, redefining Beijing’s international face, changing the world order, and completely destroying American hegemony.

It is stated in this report: Jinping’s visit to Russia was made after he won a long battle to seize the absolute power of China’s military, government and party levers; The victory cemented his hold on the seat of power as the leader of the ruling Communist Party of China with the unanimous vote of the National People’s Congress for a third unlimited term in October 2022. Referring to the current travels of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that the leader This country will “deeply engage in exchange of views” with Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, on many major international and regional issues; The issues that include the common interests of the parties and looking behind the curtain of this exchange of opinions and consultation is the increase of strategic and operational cooperation. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, during these talks, the leaders of the two countries will sign a statement that their relations are entering a “new era”; Jinping’s favorite and popular keyword.

Jinping now has freedom of action to guide China’s diplomacy towards the new era he wants; An era that, according to him, will be a “common future for humanity”. According to analysts, this expression means that Beijing is seeking to create a stronger alliance with other governments of the southern world in order to confront the American hegemony and export the model of China’s one-party system to the whole world.

A new role as mediator

Tuvia Gehring, a member of the Global China Center at the Atlantic Council, says that Beijing’s foreign policy in recent decades, instead of showing the country as a global power and a model for other countries, has basically focused on following other countries or facilitating international agreements. Is.

He added: China tends to play the role of a follower or facilitator instead of playing the role of a leader in mediating wars and regional conflicts. It is surprising that this time, China not only does not play the role of leader, but also succeeds in mediating international disputes without the presence of the United States.

The meaning of this comment is the visit of Jinping to Saudi Arabia in December last year and his meeting with all the members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council. A trip that was immediately followed by the presence of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Beijing and the issuance of a tripartite statement on December 10 between Riyadh, Tehran and Beijing regarding the resumption of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

In an article published on March 17, Marko Karnolos, a columnist for the Middle East Eye website, wrote: This agreement was a clear success for China, and it is considered the country’s first success in the troubled Middle East region, and it can promise other successes.

He added: Considering that China is planning an unprecedented high-level meeting in Beijing between the kings of Arab countries and Iranian officials at the end of this year, it is difficult to imagine a stronger slap in the form of American diplomacy in the Middle East!

The English-language and nationalist publication Global Times, published in Beijing, described the agreement as “another proof of the disappearance of the existence of unipolarity and stressed that we are now unofficially living in a multipolar world order.”

This publication wrote: The Middle East and the world are not only in the era of the post-American order, but also in the era of the post-Western order.

However, although it seems that the agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia is a propaganda achievement for Beijing, Gering believes that Riyadh and Tehran already had a lot of motivation to reach an agreement on their own, and the resumption of relations will continue. Several years of low-level dialogue between the governments of the two countries have been achieved.

According to him, mediation in the final agreement was a “low risk” strategy for Beijing; A country that, to put it simply, seized the right moment for intervention and mediation; Of course, this action also made Beijing’s 12-point peace plan for Ukraine look “ridiculous”!

Just like what’s happening in the Middle East, China doesn’t really want to take America’s place because it doesn’t want to get its hands dirty, Gernig says. In such wars, Beijing firstly considers whether it can benefit from peace talks with very low risk, like mediation between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The world’s ambitious and standard-setting actor

Mortiz Rudolph, a researcher at Yale Law School, says he believes China is also trying to establish itself as a serious global actor and norm-setter.

He added: At the same time that America enters the presidential election season, I believe that it will not be surprising if China enters into much more interactions at the world level in the next two years. From China’s point of view, it seems that the country’s foreign policy is moving towards the global south, and the purpose of this movement is to create alliances with the countries of this region and use them to achieve its long-term goals, such as changing the world order. In my opinion, China has drawn a real strategic goal for itself to shape the world order using law. Using treaties, laws, and other binding international agreements to advance Beijing’s policy goals will have powerful side effects.

Rudolph emphasized: As soon as China becomes a global actor, the country’s legal system will also expand. This is one of those issues that can fundamentally change the way the world works. It is a gradual process and you will wake up one day and realize that the order of the world has changed. Regulations have become more Chinese and so has the world order.

Wang Dan, a political commentator and former leader of the Tiananmen protests in 1989, agreed with this opinion and pointed to the agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia and said: All this shows that Jinping wants to become a world leader and spread his ideology throughout the world. . But this is only the visible surface of the story, and what we need to see is that Jinping is targeting American interests around the world in more mysterious ways.

arms export

According to Wang, an important sign of China’s expanding influence and power is recent data on international arms sales.

On March 16, CENTCOM commander Michael Korilla said in the US Senate Armed Services Committee that China’s ability to move serially towards arms sales in the Middle East and South Asia could have dire consequences. He pointed to the 80% increase in the sale of Chinese military weapons to this region in the last decade.

According to the data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States was the world’s leading arms exporter from 2018 to 2022, and China was in fourth place with only 5% of the world’s arms sales.

Meanwhile, arms sales from China to Black Africa increased threefold between 2017 and 2020, so that most of these weapons were sold to five countries that signed agreements with Beijing in the “Belt and Road Initiative” plan. In the meantime, Russian companies bought about 1,000 assault weapons, 12 tons of bulletproof vests and drone parts from China.

According to Wang, “If Jinping makes his final decision to deal with world hegemony, China’s global expansion, and permanent settlement of America’s provocative actions on the Taiwan issue, then there will be a moment to consolidate the power of Russia, Iran, and North Korea with the goal of breaking horns with the United States or It will not take long to turn the cold war into a hot war.

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