No.45, March/April 2014
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Insisting on Win-Win Cooperation and Forging the Asian Community of Common Destiny Together
Liu Zhenmin
China has never been so close to the center of the world stage like today, neither has it been so closely connected with the destiny of the outside world. The concept of “community of common destiny” is the proposal China raises for the future welfare of Asia and even the world on the basis of China’s long-term development and the prosperity and stability of its neighboring countries.
What Kind of Neighborhood Will China Build?
Ruan Zongze
The new central leadership of China has highlighted the strategic im-portance of better relations with neighboring countries and the construction of a solid foundation for China’s neighborhood strategy so as to create favorable conditions for Chinese development. China is strengthening top-level strategy in foreign relations, focusing on global-level relations and staying committed to relations with neighboring countries.
Rethinking China’s Period of Strategic Opportunity
Xu Jian
The Eighteenth Party Congress pointed out that China is still in an important period of strategic opportunity. Many people cast doubt on how to perceive and grasp the future period of strategic opportunity, and there has been a significant increase in controversial issues that need to be discussed. The purpose and focus of this article is to discuss these questions.
Rethinking East Asian Community Building
Song Junying & Yu Shaohua
East Asia is the most dynamic region in global economy and it is also a region with interwoven contradictions and growing potential conflicts. East Asian cooperation serves as an important channel of boosting regional economy and curbing political and security confrontation. The East Asian Community, once defined as the long-term goal of East Asian cooperation, should remain to play a guiding role.
International Rules Restructuring and China’s Response
Wang Jinbo
New trade or investment agreements represented by the TPP, TTIP and TISA are leading the formulation of new rules, new standards and new paradigms for global trade and investment. How to balance and handle the relations among these regional cooperation regimes is of vital importance to China’s participation in and promotion of regional integration process.
Ukraine’s Unfolding Political Drama and its Implications
Zhao Mingwen
As a geopolitical pivot in the Eurasian grand chess game, Ukraine has been vacillating between the West and East, eking out a living amid fierce contest between Europe and the US as one side and Russia as the opposite. The impact of the geopolitical rivalry on Ukrainian domestic politics, coupled by economic, social and ethnic factors, resulted in the sudden change in the Ukrainian political situation.
Sino-US Maritime Incident Prevention and Military Confidence Building
Zhang Yuan & Hu Dekun
This paper seeks to analyze the deficiencies, underlying flaws, and prospects of the Sino-US military maritime safety consultation mechanism, based on maritime incident prevention theories and typical cases. It also offers suggestions on the future development of the Sino-US maritime confidence-building mechanism.
US Central Asia Diplomacy in the Post-Afghanistan War Era
Zhao Huasheng
American academia has three viewpoints regarding American policy in Central Asia in the post-Afghanistan era, or three choices facing America: a comprehensive entry, limited intervention or phasing out. Of these three options, the limited intervention is the most possible one from the perspective of strategic priorities, resources allocations as well as realistic possibility. This involves the breadth and depth of the intervention.
India’s Strategic Culture and Model of International Behavior
Sui Xinmin
There is a strong interconnection between India’s strategic culture and its strategic choices and security behavior. India’s strategic culture, which comprises both offensive and defensive initiatives, has formed a “magnetic field” of social culture for its strategic decisions and security behavior, which has played the role of defining the scope of India’s strategic choices and the manner of international behaviors, even though it has not produced the explicitly causal or logical results.