Indian National Security Strategy,

From her independence till now, India has over 50 years' hiStory.During this half centUry,lndian successive cabined have been Strivingfor the obective to establish a great flation.In order to realise thestrategic objective, India carred out diffrent national security stratCgy invarious periods. After the Cold War, India taks the following as actualbasis to formulate natonal security strategy:The internaionalcircumstances India faces tO now has changed muh;Indian role in theThird Word has degraded after the Cold War,but she pays attention toexecute great nation strategy and deveIop relationship with American \and Russia,taldng advantage\of this to raise her stratgic position;' fAlthough Sino-Indian relationship has imProved,it does not changeessenially Indian stragetic thinking to China.A part of Indian militaryfigUres look at increasing Strong China as potential threat;BetweenIndian and Pakistan,there is a great deal of conflicts.The succesfulnuclear test in bOth nations adds new dangerous factor for the relationaldevelopmCll betWeen the tWo coufories,.The real threat of Pakistan toIndia has become a big anxiety.India must carry out new nationalsecurity Strategy if she realizes her dream of great power in this new erabackground.In the beginning of Indian indePendance and l950s,fromtraditional poiflt of view,India fulfilled traditional security strategywhich took military straegy as major content, devoted main effOrts tO-- 3 --developing military power,executed offensive defence to Chinadepended on military power chiefly in the respects of nationaldevelopmen and secure defence.But as the end of the Cold War,economy takes an outstanding position more and more in theinternational relatons and national stfategies.Economic comPetenceturns into countries core and major faCtor that determines a country'sintwtional position.In this situation,Indian thirst fOr great power,andmakes it as national stratgic focus to strongthen comPrehensive. national power,namely,allach more importance to national economicand social security.Therefore,Indian national security strategy wasadjusted from traditional to multiple security StrategyThe strategy has/three \ chiefooillts:First,she strCsses econondc security includingspeeding economic development and developing economc relationswith fOreign cOUntries.Second,she values security at sea developingmodernization naVy.Third,she emPhasizes nuclear securty,conductsnuclear test and makes nuclear weaPonized.This strategy owns a strongeXtroversion and imitiative.It's enforcement leads India ignores some ofimportant aims for her national strategies,such as domestic security andIndian social modemization issues.The disharmony is sure to bitterlyinfluce the process of her great power objective.It greatly affects Sollth Asian area and concemed cOllllries thatIndia cwhes out comPrehensive security strategy:Indian stresseseconomic security which accelerates area economic cooperation and isfaVorable to area stability,but India bolements nuclear straegy which-- 4 -arouses IndianPakistan ans race and harms area security;Indian thinksChina as her potential threat, and it desruPtes Sino-lndian relations,hinders the further development of Sino-Indian economic and culturalexchange and c o op erat on;Meanwhil e,hidia al s o envie s S ino-P aki stangood relationship,maeks tToubles for Sino-Pakistani relatons'imProvement.In this condition,if China wants to win an advamagiouscircumstances and takes the initiative agaist Sino-Pakistan relations',weshould try our best to continue to do lilie this;FirSt,we colltinue to graspthe core of economic consmiction, and strengthen the consmictionwhole heartedly,because it is the most fundamefltal problem to build uPa strong counny.Second,we should deal with correctiy the'essentialproblem of Sino-Indian relations,including border and Tibet issues.Third,we ought to handle well with Sino-Indian-P...