Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic
This paper intends to provide an analytical framework to interpret China’s growing presence in the Arctic from the perspective of world-system theory. I have set up the analytical framework from the following four aspects. Firstly, China’s externalizing behavior in the Arctic region is governed by t...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Journal of China and International Relations
2019
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1.3544 https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/article/view/3544 |
id |
ftdatacite:10.5278/jcir.v7i1.3544 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftdatacite:10.5278/jcir.v7i1.3544 2023-05-15T14:34:28+02:00 Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic Zheng, Xiaowen 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1.3544 https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/article/view/3544 en eng Journal of China and International Relations https://dx.doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1 Text Article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1.3544 https://doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z This paper intends to provide an analytical framework to interpret China’s growing presence in the Arctic from the perspective of world-system theory. I have set up the analytical framework from the following four aspects. Firstly, China’s externalizing behavior in the Arctic region is governed by the internalized law of value of the modern world-system, i.e., the endless accumulation of capital. Secondly, China has benefited and is still benefiting from the division of labor, with Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and most recently the Arctic serving as a relatively subordinated resource periphery. Thirdly, driven by a strong upward mobility, China has leapfrogged the periphery and semi-periphery and gained a semi-core position with an upward trend towards the core, by offering a favorable external environment to the Arctic (invitation to promote). Lastly, since the world-economy is currently in a Kondratieff B-phase, China, as an emerging global core power, is logically dedicated to the relocation of productive activity and the probability of alternative profitable outlets, where the Arctic is highly compatible. Keywords: China, Arctic, world-system theory, endless accumulation of capital, division of labor, upward mobility, Kondratieff B-phase : Journal of China and International Relations, Vol 7 No 1 (2019): Journal of China and International Relations Text Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
op_collection_id |
ftdatacite |
language |
English |
description |
This paper intends to provide an analytical framework to interpret China’s growing presence in the Arctic from the perspective of world-system theory. I have set up the analytical framework from the following four aspects. Firstly, China’s externalizing behavior in the Arctic region is governed by the internalized law of value of the modern world-system, i.e., the endless accumulation of capital. Secondly, China has benefited and is still benefiting from the division of labor, with Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and most recently the Arctic serving as a relatively subordinated resource periphery. Thirdly, driven by a strong upward mobility, China has leapfrogged the periphery and semi-periphery and gained a semi-core position with an upward trend towards the core, by offering a favorable external environment to the Arctic (invitation to promote). Lastly, since the world-economy is currently in a Kondratieff B-phase, China, as an emerging global core power, is logically dedicated to the relocation of productive activity and the probability of alternative profitable outlets, where the Arctic is highly compatible. Keywords: China, Arctic, world-system theory, endless accumulation of capital, division of labor, upward mobility, Kondratieff B-phase : Journal of China and International Relations, Vol 7 No 1 (2019): Journal of China and International Relations |
format |
Text |
author |
Zheng, Xiaowen |
spellingShingle |
Zheng, Xiaowen Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic |
author_facet |
Zheng, Xiaowen |
author_sort |
Zheng, Xiaowen |
title |
Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic |
title_short |
Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic |
title_full |
Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic |
title_fullStr |
Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic |
title_full_unstemmed |
Reassessing China’s Growing Presence in the Arctic |
title_sort |
reassessing china’s growing presence in the arctic |
publisher |
Journal of China and International Relations |
publishDate |
2019 |
url |
https://dx.doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1.3544 https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/article/view/3544 |
geographic |
Arctic |
geographic_facet |
Arctic |
genre |
Arctic |
genre_facet |
Arctic |
op_relation |
https://dx.doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1 |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1.3544 https://doi.org/10.5278/jcir.v7i1 |
_version_ |
1766307494817169408 |