| The influence in the world and participation in the international affairs, as a small state,Singapore shows the brilliant achievement, playing extremely asymmetric influence with its land area and population, and becoming a lot of small states’ study example today. The reason lies in its fundamental, in accordance with Singapore’s unique conditions of state and own special geographical location and combined with international environment in the case of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, especially political development in Southeast Asian, known as" father "of Singapore, Lee kuan Yee constructs as tiny Singapore’s unique diplomatic strategy——diplomacy of balancing great powers, since independence in1965.Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers is a kind of product, which safeguard national security, expand the national living space, and promote the national development. At the same time, on the basis of reality, this kind of diplomacy keeps always relevant. By diplomacy of balancing great powers, peaceful, neutral and non aligned foreign policy abided by Singapore is accepted gradually by international community, which promotes Singapore’s relations with of great powers in the region and outside region, and the formation of multilateral participation in the politics and multi-party involvement in the economy. This provides realistic enlightenment to carry out benign interaction between politics and economy in the region and the whole world.During the cold war, into the region, by means of the development of relations between Indonesia and Malaysia, Singapore establishes a balanced patter of great powers into the region, which not also suppresses the threat coming from Indonesia and Malaysia, while allowing to get rid of existing state under suspicion, then goes in the entire Southeast Asian, as the Southeast Asian’s identity of a member. Outside the region, Singapore relies on the united States and Japan, filling the great Powers ’vacuum after the withdrawl of British troops, at the same time, tries to pull into the Soviet to balance the force of the United Stated and Japan in the Southeast Asian, by the use of China, balancing the influence of Soviet Union in the Southeast Asian, which contains the Soviet Union’s permeability to the Southeast Asian, and by the entry of India, diluting the influence of China, and makes the Southeast Asian present the political situation of balance, so establishment of a balanced pattern of great powers outside the region, and eliminates the political risk led by a great powers becoming bigger and stronger dominates the Southeast Asian.After the cold war, Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers has had a constructive development, the maintenance of national security continues, at the same time, the integration process has increased the promotion, as well as, devotes to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. This makes ASEAN maintain its overall interests in whole ASEAN’s region, promote economic growth and boost ASEAN relations with great powers outside region, such as China, the United States, Japan, help to lead the forward-looking.The introduction in the paper emphatically deals with the meaning of the subject matter, the major content of the research, the situation of the research progress on the issues both at home and abroad and the methods of the research, the adopted structure focused on the paper. In addition to the introduction, the paper is divided into five mostly.The first chapter is the foundation of the whole paper, the analysis of the theory’s framework including the connotation and the extension, living space about diplomacy of balancing great Powers. There is need for the particular theory to support the diplomacy of balancing great powers, namely, balance’s theory in international theory. The theory of power balance promotes diplomacy of balancing great powers from the theory to practice, and a higher level of development in the practice. All kinds of great Powers are fundamental objects involved in the diplomacy of balancing great powers, the change of the relations among great powers, which provides power for diplomacy of balancing great powers. In addition, there is need for certain conditions in the existence and the development of the diplomacy of balancing great powers.There is no relative stability of the international environment, diplomacy of balancing great powers can only exist in virtual state, thereby missing the value of existence in the fact.The second chapter elaborates the background of Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers. In anarchic international society, the main principle of the national foreign policy is serving the interests of the state. Obviously, what foreign policy is taken by a state is deeply rooted in its environment. During Singapore’s the early days of independence, the whole state is trapped in plight internally and externally, facing the survival of vulnerability, how to survive? this is related to the existence of Singapore, the survival is overwhelming for Singapore. Singapore implements the diplomacy of balancing great powers, which is adapted to the task of national survival.The third chapter analyses the specific operation’process and achievement of Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers. By the means of the diplomacy of balancing great powers, Singapore’s national security has been more comprehensive maintenance, and national economy has got great development, Singapore becomes a successful example of the many small states in the world.The fourth chapter discusses the development of Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers, after the cold war. The end of the cold war leads to the collapse of the bipolar pattern, the multi polarization of the world are becoming more and more obvious, the focuses of Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers has changed, for the maintenance of national security and economic development, more are based on the level of ASEAN. On the premise of the stable U.S.-Japan relations’ development, the great powers represented by China outside the region have got significant improvement in the importance of Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers. This reflects Singapore’s foreign policy been always advocated by Lee Kuan Yew, the foreign policy should assesses the situation and keep pace with the times.The fifth chapter states the characteristics of Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers on the whole, as well as, the implementation of the diplomacy has what kind of influence on China. Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers has a distinct colour and endowed with profound the mark of Singapore, this is Singapore’s interests to prompt to do so. China is the world’s leading great power, and has wide interest’s orientation in the world, especially in as a close neighbor——the Southeast Asian. Through diplomacy of balancing great powers, Singapore obtains own the interests. But at the same time, this will inevitably touch the interest of China. Favorable for China, we need get involved actively, and for those who go against China, on the one hand, we stick to our principle and don’t barter the principle for trade; On the other hand, we should make full use of China’s favorable conditions, leading relations between China and Singapore to the development of win-win direction.From the strategic height of national development and Chinese perspective, the paper’s conclusion makes a judge about Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers, affirming its enthusiasm and pointing out its negativity, and puts forward countermeasures. In a word,"grain" and "loss" in Singapore’s diplomacy of balancing great powers provide more thinking space for the international development. |
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