The article analyzes the law of the People's Republic of China on international relations in the light of criticism from western countries accusing China of violating the basic principles of international law. Negative responses associate the adoption of the law, almost exclusively, with the aggravation of relations between the United States and China, in particular, as a response to unilateral restrictive measures by Washington. Assessing the law both from the perspective of China itself – as the legal basis of China's foreign policy and the continuation of Xi Jinping's policy aimed at strengthening the rule of law inside the country and developing the concept of “discursive force” outside; and from the point of view of the legal positions of negative responses, the author concludes that most of them are based on established policies “double standards” rather than an analysis of legal norms.
China; foreign policy; international relations; law; in ternational law; national law