A Study On The Security Cooperation Between China And ASEAN From The Perspective Of Xi Jinping 's Security Strategy

With the development of globalization,science and technology have been renewed everyday, the security issues are becoming more and more various,the security threats that a country faces are more complicated. The Central National Security Council was established after the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th CPC Central Committee, and Xi Jinping is the chairman. This indicates that Xi Jinping has thought unprecedentedly highly of the security issues. General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned series statements about security issues in his series speeches, which constitute his security strategy thoughts. His security strategy thoughts are thorough, original, targeting as well as closely related to the developing situation of the world. In recent years, the situations of peripheral security of China are not optimistic. Among which,the Southeast Asia area which is bordered on the southwest China maintains stable, but due to the South China Sea issues, some countries have disputes with China every now and then. What’s more, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement showed some connections to the Southeast Asian terrorism organizations. Situations like these show that, in order to keep the peripheral security of China, we need to cooperate with the Southeast Asian countries. The coverage of bilateral cooperations is far less than the multilateral cooperations. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) is the most important intergovernmental cooperative organization in the Southeast Asia. It not only includes all the Southeast Asian countries, but also develops very well in recent years. So ASEAN can be the most suitable platform for China to start multilateral cooperations with the Southeast Asian countries.First of all, this paper made a systematical discussion about Xi Jinping’s security strategy thoughts, as well as discussed its formation backgrounds, then mainly studied the contents of Xi Jinping’s security strategy thoughts, which include three parts: the overall national security outlook, the major-country security outlook, the regional security outlook. Because this paper doesn’t involve the major-country security outlook, the overall national security outlook and the Asian security outlook, which belongs to the regional security outlook, are the focusing point of this paper. Xi Jinping’s security strategy thoughts are the newest guidelines for this paper to analyze the security cooperations between China and ASEAN.Through the study of Chapter Two, there are not only necessities, but also possibilities of the security cooperations between China and ASEAN. Firstly, China and ASEAN are peripheral to each other in geo; both of them take leading role in each other’s overall security strategy layouts. Secondly, China and ASEAN are facing common security challenges, and China initiated the 21 st century maritime Silk Road, this initiative not only directly involves ASEAN, but also need the support from ASEAN. Thirdly, China and ASEAN have good cooperation history, and the security outlooks are becoming more and more convergent. This provides the possibility of further cooperations between the two.Chapter Three and Four are mainly the analysis of the status of security cooperations between China and ASEAN. 1.Currently, China has developed multi-level security cooperation mechanisms with ASEAN. They are senior leaders meeting mechanism, ministerial meeting mechanism, and work dialogue mechanism, ASEAN Regional Forum. 2. The areas of cooperation between China and ASEAN are: maritime security cooperation, economic security cooperation, and information security cooperation, anti-terrorism security cooperation, anti-drug security cooperation, public health cooperation and so on. 3. Presently, the security cooperations between China and ASEAN have four kinds of issues: the security cooperations between China and ASEAN lack practicalness, the security cooperations between the two lack preventive capabilities, and the current security cooperations lack core mechanism, the mutual trust between China and ASEAN need to be enhanced.The last Chapter offered countermeasures to deepen the security cooperations between China and ASEAN according to Xi Jinping’s security strategy thoughts. Firstly, China and ASEAN need to focus on building mutual trust; secondly, they should build a core mechanism to lead the security cooperations; thirdly, China and ASEAN should secure the safety of the South China Sea together; fourthly, China and ASEAN ought to secure the safety of sea channels together.This paper mainly tried to be creative in two perspectives. First of all, this paper systematically combed and discussed Xi Jinping’s security strategy thoughts, especially about the overall national security outlook and the Asian security outlook; second, this paper scanned the security cooperations between China and ASEAN under the perspective of Xi Jinping’s security strategy thoughts, analyzing the necessities and possibilities of conducting the security cooperations between China and ASEAN, then made an overall discussion about the areas of the security cooperations between China and ASEAN. This is a breakthrough compared with the current research findings, which are focusing more on the non-traditional security cooperations between the two, while neglecting the traditional security cooperations between them.