President Xi Jinping’s Policies towards South Asia and Implications for Regional Order

Abstract

World has witnessed a change in Chinese foreign policy with political change in March 2013.
Beijing’s more assertive role in international affairs, under new leadership of president Xi
Jinping, has been widely noticed with cautions. The China has intended to play a pre-emptive, if
not aggressive, role towards regional and international matters under the leadership of Xi Jinping
and Li Keqiang. Someone also claims that Beijing has ended its policy of peaceful rise’. Another
says, is China has any foreign policy. So Chinese changed attitude and status quo oriented
policies are hot topics of discussion. Some Chinese used the term “New Diplomacy” while
describing Beijing’s foreign policy under Xi. This paper is an attempt to analyze the new
descriptions of Chinese foreign policy and the implications for the future regional order in the
Asia Pacific.