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Relations between China and selected ASEAN Countries since the Accession of Xi Jinping
Smolák, Dominik ; Karmazin, Aleš (advisor) ; Kuľková, Miroslava (referee)
This work deals with China's foreign policy towards Vietnam and the Philippines in the period from 2013 to 2018. The aim of this work is to understand China's foreign policy, point out its changes over the years and capture possible causes that could lead to policy change towards selected countries. Part of this work is also the introduction to the broader context of mutual relations between selected countries and the introduction to the historical context of development. Special attention is paid to the South China Sea, which is a long-term stumbling block of mutual relations. The secondary goal of this work is to provide an overview of Chinese expansion in the region and how this fact affects foreign relations between selected countries. The researched political processes between the selected countries were analysed and qualitatively evaluated. Subsequently, tables were compiled containing indicators for evaluating the fulfilment of hegemony strategies. Selected cases were inserted into these tables. In these cases, it was demonstrated whether there were hegemonic tendencies. In the case of relations with Vietnam, there are no significant changes, on the contrary, in the case of relations with the Philippines, the change is very significant. Even though the result of this work is this finding, it...
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