| Diplomacy (grand diplomacy/ general diplomacy) is an ever-richening and comprehensive body which, with political diplomacy as core, has been continuously penetrating into and radiating to such fields as economic diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, etc. Therefore, political diplomacy (also called traditional diplomacy) can be the basis and one of the essential parts of modern diplomacy, it exerts four functions as realizing function, supportive function, harmonizing function and promoting function to realize and promote national interests.Ever since the founding of the P. R. C., political diplomacy of China has gone through extraordinary progress, embodied the characteristic of "keeping pace with the time" , and played a protective and supportive role for the realization of national interests of China. With the development of China and its extensive participation in international affairs, levels of variables influencing China' s political diplomacy for its reason and maturity have gone more complicated.Thus, for the purpose to build a harmonious external environment for the peaceful development of China and to enlarge China' s "international discourse right" , the system of political diplomacy with Chinese characteristics should be constructively built, which also means to approach the proposition of "what is political diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, how to build. "... |