China and the Options for Participating in the Management of the International Order: Openness and Cooperation with the Russian Federation as a Model

Abstract

Major changes have occurred in the world order over the past three decades. These changes led to the collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR) as a rival superpower to the United States of America. The international order became controlled by one pole after it had been bipolar. Under these changes, the Soviet Union re-emerged through the Russian Federation, which became another superpower competing with America. These changes also helped the growth and emergence of a third new pole: China. After being an isolated country governed by a strict and closed totalitarian regime, China, through new visions in the political, economic, strategic, military, and technological fields, became a powerful country. Its geographical advantages near Taiwan and the China Sea enabled it to expand as a superpower on a global scale, not limited to the East Pacific, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. China has begun to compete directly with the United States in military and technological development, strengthen its global capacity and power, and expand its influence in Central Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, the Gulf, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Africa, and Latin America, particularly through cooperation and openness with the Russian Federation as one of its options for participating in the management of the international order.