Some Thoughts On Contemporary Chinese Sea Power

This essay has offered some thoughts mainly on the subject of china's seapower.Seapower, it is a complex subject to Chinese people. This complexity is reflected on three aspects. Emotionally,seapower has witnessed Chinese people's glory and pride of sea activities;Seapower has also been a means and a tool used by various Powers to insult China, and brought China endless grieve and humiliation. Theoretically, seapower is an imported concept in China, which naturally has been affected by the difference between the English and the Chinese language environment. From the process of development, seapower is an ancient word, yet it has grown with the times development, with its connotation expanded, its extension has also affected by more and more factors. From the reality operational level, seapower issue must be addressed theoretically by China. Because, historically, seapower has had crucial effect on China's state destiny; and the modern China's nation development has shown signs of the need of seapower.Hence, this essay is mainly trying to discuss the following questions, What is seapower? How has seapower affected Chinese history? Why has not the ancient China become a seapower country? What meaning seapower is to modern China? Why does modern China need seapower, and what kind of seapower is needed? What is the difference between Chinese seapower and the traditional western seapower? What are the key elements that formed Chinese seapower? Based on these questions, this essay is divided to four chapters except the foreword and the conclusion. The first chapter is to define the concept of seapower, in order to clarify the meaning of factors such as sea right,sea interest,sea right and interest,sea power,sea power,sea hegemony,command of sea,marine strategy,naval strategy, etc., and the interrelationship among them. Moreover, the first chapter will also analyze the interrelationship between seapower and Geo-political theory and with Factor in international political theory. The second chapter mainly covers the historical changes and developments of Chinese seapower, will approach the subject of the connection between seapower and the State destiny of China, the analyze is furthered in the order of historical timetable. The third chapter is to prove the significance of seapower to modern China from the aspects of the development of Chinese ocean economy, ensuring nation security of China, and defending the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China. The fourth chapter firstly is to define the background of raising the issue of modern China's seapower; then the analyze will concentrate on the difference between Chinese seapower and traditional western seapower, also emphasized that the direction of peaceful development is the inevitable choice of Chinese seapower development; further definition of the key factors to Chinese seapower development; at last, it has put forward a few solutions and suggestions from the writer on strengthen and defending Chinese seapower.