China Major Responsible Country Strategy

Major responsible country is a kind of current China’s international identity, which is formulated with the trend of international politics and its own peaceful development needs. Major responsible country strategy tries its best to make a balance between national interests and the interests of all peoples, to seek happiness of its own people and the well-being around the world. China’s attitude towards the international system has experienced a shift from the sidelines exclusion, economic interests-oriented free-rider to playing as a major responsible country. The role and identity theory, international reputation and national image theory, as well as the theory of public goods have made good interpretation for China major responsible country strategy from different perspectives.China major responsible country strategy is gradually formed in the background of globalization and global governance as well as China’s enterprising, which reduced the international community’s concerns about China and promoted national images as well as boosted China and world’s common prosperity and development. China’s diplomacy at the United Nations, which provides China a platform of playing a responsible role in international security, development as well as other affairs; China’s climate diplomacy highlights China’s responsible and cooperate images in the global response to climate change issues. China has made voluntary reduction commitments and honored its obligations. What’s more, China advocates developed and developing countries to do everything together to address mankind’s common challenges, which contributes to global climate governance. Meanwhile, the implementation of China’s major responsible country strategy is affected by many factors, such as the complexity of the international political game, limitations of national power, mechanism innovation.