Non-Intervention As Governmentality: China’s Technologies of Power in The Production of Global Orde

Maya, Arthuur Jeverson and Damayanti, Angel (2026) Non-Intervention As Governmentality: China’s Technologies of Power in The Production of Global Orde. International Journal of Social Service and Research, 6 (8). pp. 946-964. ISSN 2807 8691

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Abstract

China’s expanding role in global governance has intensified debates over whether its principle of non-intervention limits power or represents a distinctive mode of exercising influence. This study aimed to explain how China’s non-intervention operates as a form of governmentality through BRICS, particularly through the concepts of sovereignty, consensus, institutional flexibility, and national responsibility. Using a qualitative approach, the research combined a genealogical perspective with Michel Foucault’s governmentality framework. Primary data consisted of BRICS summit declarations, institutional documents, speeches by Chinese leaders, and foreign policy documents published between 2014 and 2024, while secondary data included relevant books and scholarly literature. The findings showed that non-intervention functioned not as the absence of power but as a technology of government that structured the conditions under which states exercised freedom. Through BRICS, China advanced its influence by promoting sovereign equality, consensus-based decision-making, financing without political conditionality, national ownership, and institutional flexibility. These mechanisms encouraged compliance without overt coercion while preserving the formal agency of member states. The study concluded that China governed at a political distance by organizing institutional environments in which sovereignty and freedom became mediums of power, making non-intervention a productive rationality for shaping global order. This interpretation reframed China’s rise beyond conventional models of domination. Keywords: Governmentality;Non-Intervention;China;Brics;Global Governance

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