Abstract

LEMUS DELGADO, Daniel Ricardo. La construcción de la imagen de la Gran China y el discurso de la cooperación internacional: el caso del Foro sobre Cooperación China-África. Méx.cuenca pac [online]. 2012, vol.1, n.1, pp.45-75. ISSN 2007-5308.

This article illustrates the relationship between the discourse on International Cooperation and the construction of the image of the Great China. Therefore, this article analyzes the discourse of the bureaucratic elite of the Republic of China in the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. The author assumes a constructivist theoretical approach to understand how socially constructed identities and actions of states determine the international stage. This article suggests that physical structures and identities help to China to build its image in international forums as a rising power. Thus, China is building an identity that is represented as a responsible state in international society, committed to a multilateral setting, based on the principle of nonintervention and equal treatment. Meantime, China is interested in the development of African countries from a different point. The author concludes that China could be developing a different model of international cooperation projects as a different model of development that should be supported and followed for Africans countries.

Keywords : People’s Republic of China; Africa; international cooperation; constructivism.

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