China’s Initiatives Within the Framework of the Dialogue Among Civilizations

The People’s Republic of China at the moment is a symbiosis of ancient and modern, self-sufficient and open, peaceful and tough. Such a yin-yang has existed throughout China’s history as a civilisation-state. Nowadays, realising the fundamental changes on the world stage, and having sufficient resources (political, economic and ideological and value-based) to do so, Beijing seeks to take the role of a conscious pragmatic leader in a multipolar world. It recognises the existence of other ‘civilisational states’ and, while they are still unformed in their status, not only builds comprehensive links with them and involves them in its own picture of the world by proposing a triad of initiatives, but also generally builds them into a ‘community of the common destiny of mankind’ with the Chinese specificity and discursive hegemony. China, as a strong power-civilisation, is now able not only to ‘inspire’ and propose ideas and values that are streamlined in their formulation, but is also ready to control their implementation. The purpose of this article is to reveal the peculiarities of the People’s Republic of China’s ‘selfhood’ and its ability to shape its own ideological and value spaces. The paper uses linguistic, historical, socio-cultural methods of analysis, which allows us to consider this topic comprehensively.