Border Security, Sino-russian Relations

The security and stability of border area is always been the embodiment of national prosperity and stability. As an important strategic barrier of China's national security and particularity of its geopolitical position, border area plays an irreplaceable role in national security and impacts on national security profoundly at all levels. Because of the unique strategic geography position, border areas become the places that the international powers penetrate and contend with each other. Since modern times, numerous destabilizing factors always exist in China's border areas, some of them are real, and some of them are potential. So the starting point and the final destination of this thesis is to understand the security and stability of the border areas in time of peace with science, and to provide theory support and guidance for effectively protecting security and development of our country's border, and creating a peaceful environment for domestic economic construction.This thesis is mainly along the line of history review-the situation analysis-strategic thinking to conduct the study. With the angle of the longitudinal of history and transverse of realistic, the thesis is to comb the Sino-Tsarist Russia, the Sino-Soviet, and the Sino-Russia's territory disputes and boundary conflicts. Moreover, the thesis tries to summarize the internal and external factors that affect the border security and stability through the study of the different historical stages of the Sino-Soviet (Russia) territorial disputes, boundary conflicts and boundary interests, in order to find the general rules and provide the theory basis for building good boundary secure environment. Especially with the background of environment of the security and its trend changing that China was facing since the founding of People's Republic of China, the thesis analyzes and discusses the boundary security and defense problems with the method of combination of the dot, line, and face. Moreover, based on the respect of the previous research results, the thesis proposed some ideas and opinions of its ownThe whole thesis consists of three parts:the introduction, the main body and the conclusion remarks.The introduction briefly introduces the basis and significance of choosing this topic, research methods, principles as well as related documents. The main part consists of four chapters. The first chapter focuses on the retrospect of the history of Sino-Russian relations and border problems. By combing and analyzing modern tsarist Russia's invasion of Chinese territory and infringement upon China's sovereignty, this part is arranged to explore internal and external factors having got modern China in serious frontier crisis. The second chapter centers on the transcendence of the historical misunderstanding and frontier crisis. This article, by reviewing and summarizing the Sino-Soviet relations1950-1960of the20century as well as the frontier issues in the development and changes of two country's bilateral relationship, discusses the interplay between border affairs and national relationship.In the1950s, two countries came into an alliance, so border areas remained in a quite friendly state.At the end of the50's and early60's, with the deterioration of the Sino-Soviet Relationship, border conflicts and disputes escalated and the struggle became more politicized. Border problems became the big barriers in the development of normal relations. More seriously, the deterioration of two countries'relations further exacerbated the contradictions and conflicts on border affairs. The third chapter concentrates on a positive change:Chen-pao island-a tiny place which finally changed the cold war pattern. With the bloodshed continuing to expand and upgrade, the border armed conflict broke out in Chen-pao Island. Thus two countries came a long period of political, military comprehensive confrontation. This part mainly discusses the background of Chen-pao island, and its significance and impacts on the Sino-Soviet bilateral relationship and pattern of world politics The fourth chapter is mainly concerned about the power and benevolent rule:Facing the future border conflict and border security. With the national interests continuing to expand and the formation of new security concept, either connotation or extension of the boundary has been enriching and extending. And that makes two countries face more multiple challenges from the sea, the air and outer space border. This part aims to enhance border security defense actively by discussing two angles of military and civil defense. In the conclusion part, the author sums up the main contents and viewpoints, which include:The comprehensive national strength is the guarantee of border security; the boundary problem is the barometer of National relationship; the border conflict is the embodiment of national politics; the frontier is the core national interest. Based on the summarization of the whole text, the thesis put forward a series of Strategic thoughts on how to construct border security in the future.In conclusion, this paper is based on such a purpose: with a combination of history-commenting and summarization those influencing factors of the Sino-Russia border security and stability, The thesis aims to make certain beneficial attempts and explorations, which also may contribute to the theory support and practical guidance of effectively safeguarding the national border security and national interests, on the theory construction of21CN border security.