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China’s Consensus Hegemony Approach and its Engagement with South Asia
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Journal of Contemporary Politics

DOI: 10.53989/jcp.v2i1_5_menon

Year: 2023, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14

Original Article

China’s Consensus Hegemony Approach and its Engagement with South Asia

Dhruv Ashok 1 , Joshy M Paul 2 , Venugopal B Menon​ ✉ 3

1 PhD Scholar, International Studies, Christ (Deemed to Be) University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2 Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies and History, Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
3 Former Professor, Department of International Studies and History, Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 
Corresponding author ✉: [email protected]

Received Date:16 January 2023, Accepted Date:18 March 2023, Published Date:28 March 2023

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Abstract

China has enhanced its friendly engagement with South Asia in recent times, especially India. For the emergence of China as a great power in Asia, it wants to avoid any sort of resistance from regional countries and in this pursuance China considers India could be the hindrance. China is recently increasing diplomatic and economic engagement with the South Asian countries, after it has successfully implemented its ‘feel-good’ diplomacy in Central Asia and Southeast Asia. China’s diplomatic initiative is based on Gramsci’s ‘consensus’ theory approach by embracing the regional countries through cooperation and consensus in order to ensure that no one should oppose its supremacy in Asia.

Keywords: China, Hegemony, South Asia, Consensus

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