DIGITAL TECHNOCRACY AND THE DISCURSIVE POWER OF CHINA: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ASPECT
Having opened ‘the doors’ to the Western thought in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, China, nevertheless, managed to preserve its traditions, originality, and identity, consolidating its own peculiarity in the ideology of ‘socialism with the Chinese specific features’. Keeping the past in mind and obtaining valuable lessons from it, the PRC is on the way to implementing the Chinese concept of building a ‘community with a common destiny of humanity’, set forth in the Constitution. The Chinese peaceful foreign policy concept has received international support and allowed China to take a significant place on the global political scene. As the People’s Republic of China gains global leadership, it is increasingly striving to influence international political processes and form an appropriate discourse. In this sense, digitalization is an effective tool for building up the international discursive power for further Sinification of the world standards. This article focuses on the study of the priority foreign policy of modern China to strengthen the international discursive power in the context of digitalization. Thus, the author both reveals the essence of the discursive power of the PRC and explores its technocratic content.