Continuidade e mudança na política externa chinesa: a política do governo de Xi Jinping e o caso do Mar do Sul da China

Abstract

This paper deals with the Chinese Foreign Policy approach during President Xi Jinping's government, associating the country's foreign policy objectives with the President's thinking and approach. This analysis will cover the years 2013 to 2019. The research was done in a qualitative way through an extensive bibliographic review relevant to the theme, starting from the following question: To what extent - and for what reasons - the foreign policy of the Xi government Does Jinping represent a continuity or change in relation to the foreign policy of its recent predecessors? We conclude that Xi is the most powerful Chinese leader since the government of Deng Xiaoping, being the only one who has managed to make radical changes both in the internal political scenario and in foreign relations since his first term, with a foreign policy policy that, although has several aspects of continuity with its recent predecessors, presents marked changes, mainly in its more assertive and proactive stance.