Khasanah, Yulian Maulida and Rosyidin, Mohamad and Hanura, Marten (2021) The Dao in China’s Growing Presence in The South Pacific / 20/HI/2021. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Social and Political Science.

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Abstract

The rise of China as one of the great power in the international politic has been the hottest topic in the 21st century. Following the economic reform led by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China re-emerges stronger than ever with its influences covering major part of the world. One region particularly stands out since the prior dominance of United States therein, the South Pacific. The study of this research will be limited to the 14 members of the Pacific Island Forum consisting of, Cook Islands, Nauru, Nieue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Under the Western International Relations Theory (IRT) however, the rise of China is always seen in a rather malign manner. This research therefore, contends that in order to fully understand China’s behavior in the international community, we need to know how China perceives itself. By applying one of the most famous Chinese traditional school, Daoism, this research aims to examine the strategy used in the expansion of China’s influence in the South Pacific. Daoism is symbolized with yin and yang, where the two elements are contradictory, yet they complement each other. Under the Dao dialectics, this research argues that China has been utilizing a combination of two contradictory elements of power – soft and hard power – in expanding its prominence in the South Pacific region.
Keywords:The rise of China, South Pacific, Constructivism, Daoism, Culture in Foreign Policy

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