.21 Century Asia-pacific Strategic Situation And China's National Security

The coining 20 years is a vezy important period to China as well as the countries in the Asia-Pacific region. In this period, the Asia-Pacific region itself will become one of the most important strategic regions in the world. The great powers of the world, such as the U.S., Japan , Russia and India will pay more attention to the region. They will intensify to scramble for their national interests and spl~es of influence in the region. In this period ,the overall strength of China will be stronger and stronger. China will most probably become the third strongest country in the world JuSt behind the U.S. and Japan. As one of the biggest countries of the region. China has its own interests in the region. China has to concentrate its attention to the region. China has no choice but to meet the challenge which the others impose on her. This dissertation includes preface and eight chapters. The preface consults the sphere of the Asia-Paciflc region, the reason I make 20 years as the time line of the topic, the strategic importance, the strategic character and the strategic situation of the Asia-Pacific region. In the l chapter, I mainly talk about the strategy of tile U.S., Japan and Russia. I studied their national interests in the region. too. Then, I concluded that China will meet their severe contests in the region, especially the trials of the overall strength of the country. In the 2m1 chapter, I think there are many principle differences and disputes among the U.S., Japan and China. The U.S. and Japan will never satisfy that China become the main power in the world. The basic point of the U.S. and Japan is to contain China So the U.S. and Japan are the main threats to the national security of China. Like China, Russia has also suffer the oppression from the U.S. and Japan. so Russia will possibly be the strategic partner of China. In the 3 chapter, I compare the overall strengths of the U.S., Japan, Russia and China I predict that China will become the 3~d biggest country in the world. At the same time, I also point out that the increase of the overall strength of China will not change the power pattern of the world politics in the coming 20 years. China will remain the weakest one ,compared with the U.S., Japan and Russia. So the main strategic tusk of China is strengthening its overall strength. In the 4E chapter, I study the security of China from the view of geopolitics. I The Asia-Pacific Sfrntegic Siniang and the China Natima1 Security in the Eaziy 21 Centmy think that China is in the core of the Asia-Pacific region, and has vast territory, varied topography, long boundary line, and many neighbors. These geopolitical characters make China become the hot point of the Asia-Pacific region. The great powers of the region must value the geopolitical role of China, then comes the threats to the national security of China. The main geopolitical threats to China security comes from the U.S. and Japan. Russia will be a strategic partner, but as the biggest neighbor of China. Russia could be a potential geopolitical threat to China. Besides these three countries, there have five geopolitical areas which are very important to the national security of China. China must has its own influence in these five areas. Limited by the geopolitics and its national strength, China can mainly play an important role in the North ast Asia and South ast Asia.In 5%hapter, Ianaly e the military situation in the world as well as the Asia Pacific region. I concl...