Identity Politics and Chinese Climate Securitisation

: Vuori, Juha A.

: Karackattu, Joe Thomas; Joseph, Justin; Reghunadhan, Ramnath

: 1

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

: 2025

: Environmental Securitisation in India and China

: 97

: 113

: 978-981-97-9159-0

: 978-981-97-9160-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9160-6_6

: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9160-6_6

This chapter analyses the Chinese discourse on global climate change and relates it to the PRC's identity politics. As such, the issue of climate change in security studies has evolved from debates about environmental security. The paper relates the PRC's macropoliticisation of climate change to its longer-view approach to the treatment and role of the environment in China. This shows how environmental concerns have raised high on the discursive political agenda, yet how climate change is regarded more as an issue of international politics than national security in the PRC. This evolution becomes understandable when viewed in terms of identity politics.