Abstract
This chapter examines how international institutions are a critical site of great power competition, which is enacted via power bargaining, strategic co-optation, rhetorical coercion, and principled persuasion. It also recognises the important role played by international institutions in encouraging cooperation between states. In the second part of the chapter, attention is focused on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), with a particular focus on how China is applying pressure to other member states via its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as well as the 'Like-Minded-Group', to repel criticism or condemnation of its activities inside of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang).In doing so, it documents how great power competition is playing out within the HRC and it draws attention to the revisionist nature of the Chinese state.
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The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition
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9781003340997
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Abingdon, UK
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10.4324/9781003340997-27