TY - CHAP
T1 - Climate Security in China: An Issue for Humanity Rather Than the Nation
AU - Vuori, Juha A.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The chapter presents how China has approached the issue of climate change in terms of security by exploring the arenas of high politics, security concepts, state bureaucracies, civil society, and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). It is based on primary sources and uses a three-fold framework that differentiates between national security, human security and ecological security. China's long-term position has been to emphasise climate as an issue of development and underline the ``common but different responsibility'' between developing and industrial nations. Over the 2010s though, China's position shifted from regarding climate change as a technical and political issue to one that also concerns security, understood in a ``holistic'' or integrated manner. Still, the understanding leans more towards the security of humanity rather than the national security of China. At the same time, ``harmony between man and nature'' has been incorporated into the canonised political line of Xi Jinping, although this is not legitimated with security. Accordingly, China has emphasised that the issue should be resolved through international cooperation rather than unitary measures.
AB - The chapter presents how China has approached the issue of climate change in terms of security by exploring the arenas of high politics, security concepts, state bureaucracies, civil society, and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). It is based on primary sources and uses a three-fold framework that differentiates between national security, human security and ecological security. China's long-term position has been to emphasise climate as an issue of development and underline the ``common but different responsibility'' between developing and industrial nations. Over the 2010s though, China's position shifted from regarding climate change as a technical and political issue to one that also concerns security, understood in a ``holistic'' or integrated manner. Still, the understanding leans more towards the security of humanity rather than the national security of China. At the same time, ``harmony between man and nature'' has been incorporated into the canonised political line of Xi Jinping, although this is not legitimated with security. Accordingly, China has emphasised that the issue should be resolved through international cooperation rather than unitary measures.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-26014-8_3
M3 - Chapter
T3 - The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS)
SP - 45
EP - 63
BT - Climate Security in the Anthropocene: Exploring the Approaches of United Nations Security Council Member-States
A2 - Hardt, Judith Nora
A2 - Harrington, Cameron
A2 - von Lucke, Franziskus
A2 - Estève, Adrien
A2 - Simpson, Nicholas P.
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -
