The Study Of Deng Xiaoping's National Security Thought

The national security is mainly shown as the positive competitiveness and relatively passive ability to resist risks for a country in facing of a certain domestic and international environment. National security thought, refers to the view, attitude and ideas that held toward national security problems, including the assertion of security interests and security nature, the judgment over safe environment and security relationship, the pursuit of security goal and security order and the choice of security means and approaches, etc. The national security thought is an important component of Deng Xiaoping Theory.The formation of Deng Xiaoping's national security thought is under the great changed historical circumstances of the international and domestic situations. Since 1970s, a series of important and deep-going changes had taken place in the international situation. Peace and development have become the themes of our times. The relationship among great countries is in deep adjusting for the accelerating of economic globalization process. Meanwhile, the reform and opening-up in China enters its new periods. Thus the national developing strategy has been made great adjustment that the core of our Party and country's work changes to the track of focusing on economic construction.Deng Xiaoping's national security thought gets an extremely abundant content while in this context, we sum it in four aspects on the basis of consulting to a large mount of reference and mixed them with our own comprehension. The first aspect is to safeguard the national interests and sovereignty security. That is to insist that the sovereignty is above anything and firmly safeguard the unification of the motherland and the territorial integrity; to deal with the international relation and affairs proceeding from national interests and to object to hegemonism but defendworld peace. The second aspect is to adhere to the independent and initiative principle, namely oppose to any foreign forces that interfere Chinese inner affairs and China won't form or join in any alliances while respects others' independence and initiation. The third aspect is to improve the overall national strength in an all-round way. That means to devote major efforts to strengthen economic construction in a more cost-effective manner; to strengthen the domestic stable and unify; to develop science and technology energetically and to implement opening to the outside world actively. The fourth aspect is to strengthen national defense modernization, namely define the basic task of national defense modernization, to handle the relationship between national defense construction and economic construction correctly and to build the modern, regular, revolutionary national defense standing army.There are the following main characteristics of Deng Xiaoping's national security thought: the distinct era, the farseeing foresight, the being practical in sizing up the situation, the innovative basing on reality and the unity of Chinese security and world security.Deng Xiaoping's national security thought is the inheritance and development of Mao Zedong's national security thought which enriches the theory treasure-house of the national security thought in Marxism and offers the valuable theory legacy for the third generation of collective leadership to establish new national security views. Therefore, Deng Xiaoping's national security thought, which gets important realistic meaning in safeguard our country's national security and interests also can promote the peace and development of the world, is the theory guide of our national security strategy.