Features of the multilateral Chinese diplomacy within brics

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of Chinese multilateral diplomacy at the present stage of the development of the PRC. An analysis is based on the features of the PRC’s diplomacy after the coming to power of President Xi Jinping. In addition, the author reviewed the activities of Chinese diplomacy in the BRICS format and correlated it with the strategic goals set for the country by the current leadership. The author focused on the Chinese BRICS+ initiative, which allows accumulating diplomatic resources to support the global initiative “One Belt, One Road”. © 2021, Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk, Institut Istorii (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of General Hist. All rights reserved.