ABSTRACT
The importance of researching China’s engagement in multilateralism lies precisely in the fact that China adopts it in the historical process of reimagining and redefining the world order and China’s role in it. In this chapter, the author discusses several important external factors of China’s foreign policies. These factors are also important trends and tendencies of international affairs that leave deep impacts. Chinese scholars have continually realized that modern ideas and concepts are largely dependent on Western philosophy and concept definition, which usually do not correspond to Chinese culture and understanding. So a redefinition of many concepts based on Chinese concepts is developed as the first step toward a Chinese international theory. The importance of researching China’s engagement in multilateralism lies precisely in the fact that China adopts it in this historical process of reimagining and redefining the world order and China’s role in it.
