On The Characteristics Of Cold War In Asia - Pacific Region

The history of the cold war is an important part of the history of contemporary international relations, and the cold war in the Asia Pacific region has a special status in the contemporary international relations. The shadow of the cold war not only caused great damage to the countries and peoples of the Asia Pacific region, but also had an important impact on the current situation and development of the Asia Pacific region. The Cold War in Asia is different from that in Europe, competition for the interests of the great powers, the power vacuum caused by the war, the collapse of the colonial system, national independence,the emergence of new ideology and the leaders’ way of the dealing things interact with each other and interact as both causes and effects. With the outbreak of the Cold War in Europe and its gradual spread to the Asian-Pacific region, Asia has become the new arena of the Cold War.Chinese Communist Party established its dominant position in the mainland and implemented the “one-sided” foreign policy of the Soviet Union. With the Sino Soviet Alliance, conceived by the United States to Sino US alliance as the core of its Asia Pacific strategy plan burst, the United States gradually change its policy toward China, the strategic focus to Japan. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the United States sent troops to East Asia and garrisoned Taiwan Strait. The Cold War in Asia began to form, with France’s failure return to Indochina, the United States takes the “Red Domino effect” as an excuse to replace French’s involvement in the region, and the blockade toward the new China began to emerge.In the Asia Pacific region, the cold war and armed War of national liberation and national reunification movement, the outbreak of the Korean War, Indochina War and other wars. As the extension of the Cold War in Europe, the Cold War in the Asian-Pacific region blends the one in Europe and their blend marks the final completion of the global Cold War. In order to meet the needs in the confrontation of the two camps in East Asia, the United States changed its policy toward Japanese and left Japan’s democratic reforms unfinished. The “San Francisco Peace Treaty” which was manipulated by American makes Asia Pacific international relations worse and also makes preparation for its interferences. For the United States to intervene the regional affairs scored “wedge”. Under the combination of internal and external factors, the characteristics of the Cold War in the Asian-Pacific region have been formed.This thesis aims to conduct a comprehensive and detailed study of the Cold War in the Asian-Pacific region, focusing on the causes and relations of the Cold War in theAsian-Pacific region, which is different from the one in European. This thesis is based on the domestic and international books of authority and outstanding academic achievements in this field, and combines the author’s own thinking about the operation mode of the Cold War in the Asian-Pacific region, analyzes the containment target,confrontation mode, the dealing ways of the defeated countries in Asian-Pacific region from the perspective of horizontal discussion. This thesis uses the Cold War thinking, divides the characteristics into different periods and angles in order to obtain the true understanding of the Cold War in the Asian-Pacific region.