The Strategic Choice Of China's Participation In UN Peacekeeping Mechanism

United Nations peacekeeping mechanism is an important mechanism under the United Nations collective security system, which has made an important contribution to maintain the world peace and security after the postwar, particularly after the cold war. China's policy towards peacekeeping mechanism turned from the phase of passively participating to partly participating, then actively participating. With the opening-up to the outside world and the participation in international affairs growing, China's position towards PKOs will be more active and realistic, and China will play a more important role in PKOs.After the cold war, the authority, the scale, the scope of UN peacekeeping operations expand rapidly, humanitarian intervention become the reason of UN peacekeeping operations day by day, the three principles of UN peacekeeping operations were increasingly broke through, UN peacekeeping operations involve domestic conflict which has initiated the contradiction between peacekeeping operations and the national sovereignty, these questions strengthened the peacekeeping operations's own localization fuzziness and the influence versatility, in addition restricted by China's own level of development, which proposed the challenge in the practice and the cognition to China at the same time.In the current peacekeeping operations, the world main great nation and the main political power all positively involves the peacekeeping operations, the varied powers and the multiple benefits gather in here with the collision, which is the interests group's gambling among each other. Facing the stern situation, how does China make use of favorable conditions and avoid unfavorable conditions in the peacekeeping operations, and achieved the primary purpose of keeping the world peace, these request China to rapidly enhance the ability of making with the crisis to the complex question. Participating in the United Nations peacekeeping mechanism by a more positive posture is both the reality and conforms to China's long-term benefits diplomatic strategy, which is not only because this is China the responsibility that must undertake as the UN Security Council permanent member and the topicality great nation, it is also the important and the effective way of China to deeply integrates the international security mechanism.