ABSTRACT
The chapter concludes the volume by taking a synthetic view of all the discourses presented in the preceding chapters. The chapters form a themed history of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) global security discourses that includes perspectives from epistemic communities and bureaucracies in addition to those of political leaders and branches of government. Interestingly, while many other processes of securitization in the PRC have produced contestation and resistance dynamics, only the case of the war on terrorism has shown signs of this taking place in the macrosecurity ones. While the PRC has approached each of the international macrosecuritizations differently, its main push is towards the desecuritization of its relations with other great powers using macrodesecuritization. This is the case with the maintenance of the desecuritization of the Cold War, yet its proposals for new types of global security governance based on the United Nations (UN) aim to do the same. The overall argument in the volume is that the way the contemporary PRC uses macrosecuritization discourses provides for ontological security as its position in relation to other major powers is undergoing transformations by allowing the PRC to maintain a consistent narrative of its international self that abides by its set of moral values and sense of worth.
