La transformación de las políticas exteriores de la República Popular de China después de la reforma y apertura (1978 - 2022)una visión política y sociológica

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China has passed 40 years of rapid and impeccable economic growth after the Reform and Opening policy, taken by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. In 2010, China's GDP exceeded Japan's for the first time, ranking second followed by the American. With the arrival of President Xi Jinping, the State presented the most proactive and initiative position on the international stage. Accompanied with China's multidimensional development, more clashes appeared against the traditional powers both the Europeans and the US. Recently, we found out about it with the Trade and Technology War in 2022. Therefore, we remember the principle of international relations highlighted in Deng's time, which represented keeping a low profile. Finding the opposite which is achieving something positive. This change or transformation of foreign policies has its foreign reasons due to important geopolitical changes. However, it is based in the domestic one due to the reforms carried out since 1978. The doctoral thesis tries to investigate these internal reasons from the Chinese perspective through analyzing the policies taken and the changes made during four generations of leaders of Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. The research is based on the classical hypothesis that internal affairs determine foreign affairs, thus developed the hypothesis of constant and deepened Reform and Opening determine that China acts more proactively and aggressively.