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Chinese foreign policy: the rhetoric shift from keeping low profile to assertiveness
Liškutín, Kamil
The goal of the thesis is to answer the question whether the new leader, Xi Jinping, has indeed moved away from more low profile oriented strategy. The first part deals with both theoretical and methodological background. The second part uses the background to answer the question via speech comparison and analysis in terms of speech coding. Moreover, the results are tested so as to challenge certain findings resulting from speech comparison due to possible errors.
The influence of China on CEE countries' foreign policy preferences
Liškutín, Kamil
The primary goal of this thesis is to address the validity of a popular premise that China has deployed a “divide et impera” strategy in relations with the European Union through the 16+1 Initiative. The contemporary literature predominantly focuses on the analysis of economic aspects. The thesis, however, deploys unique techniques to study non-economic aspects. As such the analysis was conducted via both comparison of state positions derived from the United Nation roll-call data and the speech similarities derived from the United Nations statements. The author concluded that the 16+1 initiative has led to only a very slight increase in similarity of the state’s preferences between the CEE countries and China.

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