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Academic Analysis Of China's Diplomatic Strategy In East Asia After The Cold War

Posted on:2012-12-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116330335485462Subject:Diplomacy
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China's diplomatic strategy in East Asia in this thesis is mainly from the perspective of regional strategy.In this paper, the theory of regional strategy is focused on the positioning of its theory framework, elements and the analysis of regional strategic environment, regional strategic competitor analysis, regional strategic decision-making, regional strategic assessment and the implementation of regional strategies . Besides, the main variables of regional strategies are also analyzed. As a special diplomatic strategy, Regional strategy share the common characteristics of the diplomatic strategy, and the theory also has its own uniqueness. From the national strategic level, the regional strategy is on the fourth level of the whole national strategic level.Therefore, regional strategy must be subordinate to and serve the country's overall diplomatic strategy and overall strategy.Regional strategy is the specific application and embodiment of strategic theory in geography and location. The theoretical support of regional strategies generally includs geo-politics theory, theory of regional integration and regionalism theory. Specifically, the theory of geo-strategic factors includs geopolitical, international geo-economic factors, geographical and cultural factors. This paper focuses on open-regionalism and its effects on China's diplomatic strategy in East Asia.The strategy of " basing on the Asia-Pacific, and stabilizing the neighboring country"was formed in 1990s. Its formation has a profound international and domestic background. As guided by the strategy ,the security environment of China is relatively stable in 1990s. And it created a good international environment for China's deepening reform and opening up and economic development and laid a good foundation for China's sustainable development in 21th century as well. In a sense, The strategy of " basing on the Asia-Pacific, and stabilizing the neighboring country"is quite successful and can be used as the guiding ideology of our diplomatic strategy in the new century.The implementation of regional strategies for regional cooperation in the early 21st century in China can be regarded as the continuation and expansion of good-neighborly diplomacy since the founding of P.R.C. The surrounding geo-political and geo-security environment faces many new issues and difficulties in the new century. It is imperative to implement the new good-neighborly and regional strategy.From a strategic point of view, China's "good-neighborly and enriching neighborhood, safe-neighborhood " in the new century has a wealth of China's traditonal strategic thinking."Good neighbor"is an extension of the policy of"building a good-neighborly relationship and partnership with neighboring countries",which means harmonious coexistence on the political level, emphasizing equality, cooperation and common development. " Enriching neighborhood" is mainly related to economic cooperation. Specifically, the "enriching neighborhood" focuses on strengthening economic exchanges, contacts, dialogue and strategic cooperation, as well as continuously expanding the channels for economic and trade cooperation, expanding mutual trade and investment, and actively promoting the regional economy integration, thereby contributing to mutual benefit and achieving common development, to the common prosperity with the neighboring countries."Safe neighboring countries"mainly refers to the political and security cooperation in the field of mutual trust and common security. Specifically, it means creating a peaceful and stable surrounding environment in the security field with neighboring countries jointly and actively protecting peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, through enhanced dialogue, enhancing mutual trust, and peaceful negotiation instead of resorting to force to deal with regional disputes, so as to create a peaceful and stable development of the region to achieve common security in the region. To some extent, the strategy of good-neighborliness and regional cooperation effectively resolve the "China threat" and effectively enhance China's international image, but also helpful for China to cooperate with the world.The current strategic environment in East Asia is complex, the strategic security environment in East Asia is particularly serious, however, there are still many opportunities in the current strategic environment in East Asia. In the foreseeable future, China's diplomacy in East Asia is not only related to China's own national interests, but also closely related to the development and future of East Asia. Specifically, China's strategic advantage can be divided into geographical advantages and strengths advantages as a big power . Strategic weakness mainly means there are big countries as China's neighboring country and thus there are many constraints on the geopolitical and geographical difficulties.Besides, there are many territorial disputes with iChina in East Asia. The culture and values are quite different in the region as well. and so on. With a long-time steady and rapid development, China has a lot of strategic opportunities.Strategic threat to China is closely connected with the United States because the United States is China's real strategic opponent in East Asia. Specifically, China's strategic threat and strategic pressure mainly comes from the United States by using institutional and territorial disputes in East Asian countries against provoking China. In East Asia, China's future strategic choice should be based on the theory of regional integration and open regionalism to build an"Open East Asian Community".East China's future strategic needs a range of theoretical guidance, such as geographic theory, regional cooperation and integration theory, as well as the theory of open regionlaism and so on. China's future foreign policy in East Asia should focus on principles of"easy things first,"and strengthen the diversity of multilateral regional cooperation in East Asia and nail down the cooperation framework of the region.
Keywords/Search Tags:diplomatic strategy, regional diplomatic strategy, regional cooperation in East Asia, China's regional diplomatic strategy in East Asia, Open East Asian Community
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