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      <JournalTitle>ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 5 Issue 2</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
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      <Season>August-September 2024</Season>
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        <Year>2024</Year>
        <Month>09</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
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      <ArticleType>International Relations</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Examining China’s Stances on the 2023-2024 Gaza Crisis in the United Nations Security Council</ArticleTitle>
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      <FirstPage>234</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>255</LastPage>
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          <FirstName>Chandam</FirstName>
          <LastName>Thareima</LastName>
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      <DOI>10.47362/EJSSS.2024.5209</DOI>
      <Abstract>China’s Rise is being accompanied with increasing activism in the international domain, giving rise to the Chinese “assertiveness” narrative, which argues that as a result of its rising power, China has become (more) assertive in pursuing its national interests. In view of the apprehensions that its rise in power and increasing “assertiveness” has generated, China seeks to portray the image of a “responsible great power.” It is against this backdrop of China’s increasing “assertiveness,” the pursuit of its interests and attempts to project a “responsible great power” image that this article seeks to study China’s stances on the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the current Gaza crisis. As China’s interests in the Middle East grows and as it seeks more influence in the region, the crisis appears to present an opportunity for China to pursue some of its foreign policy objectives, from furthering its interests to also undertake responsibility as a great power. Hence, it is within these parameters of interests and great power responsibility that this article seeks to study China’s role in the current Gaza crisis, specifically as a P5 member- a status which is endowed with the power to realise its interests as well as the responsibility of maintaining peace and security in the world.</Abstract>
      <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage>
      <Keywords>China,United Nations Security Council,P5,National Interests,Great Power Responsibility,Middle East,Gaza Crisis.</Keywords>
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