Surrounded By Political Alliances: Security Dilemmas And Strategic Choices Of Contemporary China

Content: Political alliances are common phenomena in the fields of international relationships. China is always dealing with them today. On one hand, it stays in formal political alliance with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and keeps a kind of informal political alliance with the vast number of developing countries. On the other hand, just look at the US's allies and military bases surrounding China in the map and its strategic intents of containing China embodied in the national military strategy report published by the joint chiefs of staff on February 8,2011, it is not difficult to make such a judgment: China is surrounded by the political alliances leading by the US. It is well worth thinking deeply about the major issues of how to understand and grasp the laws of political alliances, apply political alliance strategy, break the surround of political alliances. This paper will be divided into five parts. In the first part, the author's definition of political alliance is set forth in theory, and a survey of such problems from the perspective of practice is given as how political alliances come into being, what are political alliances'characteristics and plights, how political alliances split. The second part analyzes the situation in which China is being surrounded by the political alliances, and points out the Sino-American contradiction is the principal contradiction in relation to China's national security, and the contradictions between South Korea, Japan, the European Union, the third world and China are secondary; and North Korea, Russia and most of the third world countries is China's Allies. Such issues are also analyzed as the strategic position and general characteristics of Sino-US relations in global geopolitical competition, America's strategic predicament, and China's position in American grand geopolitical chessboard. The third part analyzes the historical and religious roots of why US-led political alliances surround China, and points out that it was the long-term impact brought by the Oriental nations from east into west on Eurasia left a psychology of deep fear to Western strategists represented by Halford John Mackinder. So they always keep an watchful eye on the Orient and try to prevent and weaken orient nations. Today, they are aiming this kind of efforts to China and Russia. At the same time, this part points out that it is just the authoritarian, narrow-minded (or intolerant) characteristics of such monotheism fundamentals as Judaism, Christianity and Islam that have provided some political power (including state power) wearing religious coat with the possibility to deceive and utilize their believers in international competition. The Freemasons is such a secret organization who is using the possibility to accomplish a hyper-partisan control of finance, politics and ideology in western countries. It has been transforming all Christian denominations and other social parts with false religion, and has made an evil third world war plan of killing 50%-90% world population with nuclear and biological weapons. The fourth part points out that it is necessary and feasible for China to construct anti-surround political alliances to defend her own security, and it is also good for constructing a more harmonious world. Although the Freemasons and America dominated political alliances are very strong, they are not invincible. They are doomed to failure for their evil, narrow-minded, dictatorial and reactionary doctrines, their conspiratorial, fraudulent and brutal operating ways and their profound vertical and horizontal internal interest conflicts. On this basis, the paper tries to summarize Chinese historical experiences on political alliances, put forward the principles and methods for future political alliances constructing. On one hand, we should take full advantage of existing international organizations, such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and future East Asian Community. We should battle for dominant position in the process of United Nations reform for the benefits of developing countries. On the other hand, we should seek for new allies, such as Mongolia, Iran, and put forward the possibility that North Korea may join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the possibility that North Korea and Russia may join the East Asian Community. The author believes that the recapture of Ryukyu Islands is the precondition for China to lead the East Asian Community, and put forward a general development orientation of China-Japan relation in the future: based on the completely liquidation of Japanese invasion history, if the delimitation issue between China and Japan still cannot be solved in a short term, in the framework of East Asian Community, they can discuss the possibility of form a community which will take the responsibility of equally distributing their common material and technological wealth according to their population. Firstly, this issue can be discussed between academia of the two countries. Then, if both sides deem it as reasonable and economical, it can go to official levels and be carried into specific practice. As the time goes by, experiences will be accumulated and other countries can be absorbed into the community. In the part of conclusions, there are a new scan and a summarization of political alliances from Chinese traditional philosophical perspective, especially the traditional Chinese medical theoretical perspective. The author believes that a just cause enjoys abundant support while an unjust cause finds little. So, for a political alliance, it is most important to act according to the morality and justice, or it may be crippled by internal contradictions, be disintegrated by disloyalties, be trapped into dangerousness and be defeated by its enemies. In the relationship between political alliances and Tao, Tao is the soul, purpose and basis of just political alliances and the political alliances are the bodies and means of Tao. A just political alliance shall help to increase the public interests of all over the world. Generally speaking, if we want to apply traditional Chinese medical science to deal with the disease of the world, the overall requirement should be make it more equal, that is to say, we should distribute resources of world equally, let the people all over the world to create and share a more prosperous and more harmonious world, rather than organize some wolf-like political alliances to surround, strike and enslave small and weaker nations as well as its member.