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China's Diplomacy

China's Diplomacy


PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY

This programme looks at how China's diplomatic relations influences the country's development in different stages after its founding. It is hoped that the programme will help the viewer broaden horizons, revisit the lessons we learned from history, understand the status quo of the international community and envision China' s future development.

The first episode presents an overview of major developments in China' s foreign policies. Episode 2 to 8 look at the social and political changes in China and the international community in the past 60 years through China' s relations with the Soviet Union, North Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, India and Kazakhstan.

1. China's Diplomacy - An Overview
2. Beijing - Moscow (China And The Soviet Union)
3. Friendship Cemented By Blood (China And North Korea)
4. Comrades And Brothers (China And Vietnam)
5. Distant Relatives, Close Neighbours (China And Indonesia)
6. A Long Journey Of Love And Hate (China And Japan)
7. When The Dragon Dances With The Elephant (China And India)
8. A New Leaf (China And Kazakhstan)

8 DVDs / 2009 / 240 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 1: CHINA'S DIPLOMACY - AN OVERVIEW

The episode presents an overview of major developments in China's foreign policies.

The episode examines major developments in China's foreign relations in the 60 years since its founding: one-sided support for the Soviet Union; participating in the Geneva Conference and the international community; proposing the Five Principles for Peaceful Co-existence at the Bandung Conference; export of revolution to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America; keeping a low profile after the June Fourth Incident; and developing partnership diplomacy with great powers and neighbours.

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 2: BEIJING - MOSCOW (CHINA AND THE SOVIET UNION)

Sino-Soviet relations have been a roller coaster ride since New China's founding: from alliance in the 1950s, split in the 1960s, hostility in the 1970s, reconciliation in the 1980s to the Soviet Union's dissolution and China's emergence as a new global power in the 1990s. How have changes in Sino-Soviet relations influenced the development of the international community?

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 3: FRIENDSHIP CEMENTED BY BLOOD (CHINA AND NORTH KOREA)

The Korean Peninsula, located in Northeast Asia, is China's gateway in the northeast, one of immense strategic importance.

In June 1950, the Korean War broke out. New China, despite the urgent need for domestic reconstruction, entered the war with great determination, for its own national security and also to support communist North Korea. China paid a huge price for the war but had North Korea's friendship in exchange. It was a friendship cemented by blood.

In the late 1970s, China implemented its reform and opening-up policy and began to drift away from North Korea ideologically. Then the building of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in 1992 further damaged Sino-North Korean relations.

Today, as the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula intensifies, all eyes are on the peninsula, as well as China - whether its influence on North Korea will prevail.

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 4: COMRADES AND BROTHERS (CHINA AND VIETNAM)

While China and Vietnam borders each other, their fates are intricately connected. Yet over the past 60 years, the two socialist powers have gone through good and bad times in their relations. This episode tells the ups and downs of Sino-Vietnamese relations, from a bond stronger than brotherhood, to a dramatic fallout and then hearty reconciliation.

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 5: DISTANT RELATIVES, CLOSE NEIGHBOURS (CHINA AND INDONESIA)

China and Indonesia are only a sea apart, and Indonesia has the largest overseas Chinese population in the world, bringing the two countries even closer.

Indonesia built diplomatic relations with the PRC in 1950, and was among the first countries to recognise China's new political regime. In the mid 1950s, with Indonesia's help, China was able to attend the Bandung Conference and opened the door to foreign relations with Asian and African countries. Yet in the 1960s, as a new president took office in Indonesia, the country launched a series of anti-communism and anti-Chinese campaigns, which eventually resulted in the breaking up of diplomatic relations.

Sino-Indonesian relations were built in 1950s, severed in 1967 and re-established in the 1990s. In 60 years, the two countries have gone through a great deal to peaceful coexistence today.

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 6: A LONG JOURNEY OF LOVE AND HATE (CHINA AND JAPAN)

Although Sino-Japanese diplomatic relationship was only re-established in 1972 after Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei's China visit, non-government contacts were frequent prior to normalization. Premier Zhou Enlai admonished the Japanese that 'past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future'. But Japan has never admitted to its invasion of China and the atrocities it had committed there. 1970-80 were Sino-Japanese relationship's honeymoon years. Japan's Official Development Assistance helped China build up its infrastructure. Reviews the ebb and flow in diplomatic relationships in ensuing years. Observes that Sino-Japanese relationship will remain like this in the future.

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 7: WHEN THE DRAGON DANCES WITH THE ELEPHANT (CHINA AND INDIA)

Neighbouring countries China and India are both ancient Asian civilisations with vast territory and a large population. In 1962 the two countries went to war as a result of border conflicts, and in recent years India granting asylum to the Dalai Lama as well as the issue of Tibetan refugees have created tension in Sino-Indian relations. Yet Sino-Indian economic and trade relations have developed in spite of political disparities. India's advantage in software, combined with China's sufficiently developed infrastructure and hardware, is set to create mutual benefits for the two countries. As emerging BRIC countries, China and India have caused significant concern in western countries. While the two countries compete for power and influence in the international community, they are strategic partners in business and commerce. China and India, enemies and friends all at once, give their best performance on the stage of the world.

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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PRC - 60 YEARS OF NEIGHBOURING DIPLOMACY 8: A NEW LEAF (CHINA AND KAZAKHSTAN)

In the 1990s, global politics underwent a major reshuffle. As the Soviet Union dissolved and its 15 republics declared independence, China saw the addition of five emerging Central Asian countries along its borders. A new balance has to be found in international politics, and China is forming new relationships with its five new neighbours though new diplomatic thinking and strategies. Kazakhstan declared independence from the Soviet Union in December 1991 and China was among the first countries to recognise its independence. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country.

With rich natural resources, it borders Xinjiang and has become China's new partner in energy diplomacy. Kazakhstan is the most powerful country among the five countries of Central Asia. Located at the heart of Eurasia, Central Asia has become a major battlefield for the global competition for resources. In May 2004, China and Kazakhstan inked an agreement to build the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline. This is China's first land pipeline for crude oil import; it reduces the country's reliance on its marine pipeline and hence the risks of importing oil from the Middle East and Africa.

Besides cooperating on energy projects, China and Kazakhstan are also partners in anti-terror efforts. In June 2001, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia founded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an anti-terror initiative to fight the forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism. 60 years after its founding, New China is directing its diplomatic efforts towards a brand new way of thinking.

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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