| After the cold war, the international situation has become characterized by relaxed international relations and growing world economy. Under the new historical conditions, the meaning of the security concept has evolved to be multifold with its contents extending from military and political to economic, science and technology, environment, culture and many other areas. The means to seek security are being diversified. Strengthening dialogue and cooperation is regarded as the fundamental approach to common security.In the past 20 years from 1982, there are two events that highlight the history: the "Rise of China" chaos and Chinese Communist Party and The People's Republic of China Leadership Transitions, the latter of which is more significant. China's Kaileidoscopic modern history has produced sharp differences among different generations. Each generation endured distinctive traumas and socializing experiences in its formative years. The evolution in Chinese leaders' security concepts partially reflects generational succession. China is a strong advocate of the new security concept. Since the Chinese leaders have called for the establishment of a new security concept on many occasions both at bilateral meetings and multi-lateral forum in recent years, the new security concept has become an important component of China's foreign policies.In China's view, the core of such new security concept should include mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination.Mutual trust means that all countries should transcend differences in ideology and social system, discard the mentality of cold war and power politics and refrain from mutual suspicion and hostility. They should maintain frequent dialogue and mutual briefings on each other's security and defense policies and major operations.Mutual benefit means that all countries should meet the objective needs of social development in the era of globalization, respect each other' s security interests and create conditions for othersj~ security while ensuring their own security interests with a view to achieving common security.Equality means that all countries, big or small, are equal members of the international community and should respect each other, treat each other as equals, refrain from interfering in other countries; internal affairs and promote the democratization of the international relations.Coordination means that all countries should seek peaceful settlement of their disputes through negotiation and carry out wide ranging and deep-going cooperation on security issues of mutual concern so as to remove any potential dangers and prevent the outbreak of wars and conflicts.After the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Nov 2002 and in March 2003,the newly elected leaders came into being, they may likely choose change stemming from their personal affiliation and interests/career. How do they view the international security situation ? What are the differences between the Third and Forth generation? What are their viewpoints on sovereignty in this more and more interdependent world, U.S. TMD plan in Eastern Asia, arms control and disarmament, humanitarian intervention, Asian security regimes, etc? All these questions are becoming more and more important and crying for answers for both scholars and statesman. This project will be of great help to the answers to some of these questions. In this paper, comparative Analysis will be used to compare Chinese different four generations ofleaders' security concepts. Try to find whether there is a learning curve from the first generation leaders to the new leaders? How the Chinese leaders learn and how the existing international regimes teach them about international standards of conduct? How they define and redefine China's national security interests? And how the Chinese leaders modified their international objectives? At the same time, level analysis will be used to analyze Chinese new leaders' views on international order and regional order. In the Asia-Pacific region, how to m...
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