ABSTRACT
Diplomacy is a major ingredient of power (Berridge 2005: 1). For the study of diplomacy and international relations, however, the relationship between diplomacy and power has been not clear cut. Power’s ‘relationship with foreign policy’ has been neglected, ‘partly because foreign policy has just been subsumed in general discussions about conflict and the rationale of the state’ to quote an English writer (Hill 2003: 129). In the case of China’s diplomatic source of power, it is difficult to see where the power actually comes from. This chapter, however, attempts to establish a relationship between China’s diplomacy and its power.
