No.49, November/December 2014
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Work Together for Peace, Prosperity and a Beautiful Future
Tang Jiaxuan
China-Korea relations at present are at their best in history and enjoy tremendous potentials. The two sides can, through their concerted efforts, further promote the level, breadth and depth of their strategic cooperation partnership to better serve the well-being of the two peoples and make greater contribution to safeguarding regional peace and promoting regional prosperity.
Laying the Foundations of Peace and Stability for an Asian Community of Shared Destiny
Liu Zhenmin
Since the end of the Cold War, building an Asian Community has become common aspiration of the nations and peoples in the region. The author maintains that shared interests, shared responsibility, and culture and people are three pillars of the Community. He also shares with us his thoughts on how to build foundations for peace and stability for the Asian Community of Shared Destiny.
China’s New Diplomatic Moves in the Middle East
Yao Kuangyi
Hotspot issues in the Middle East are rising and falling and entangled with each other while national, religious and sectional conflicts are continuously intensifying. China has been taking a proactive stand to promote reconciliation and negotiation, playing an increasingly important and constructive role in the Middle East. A new form of diplomacy on hotspot issues with Chinese characteristics is in shaping.
China’s African Engagement: Advancing Multilateralism
Paul Pryce
China’s peaceful rise can help positively reshape the international order, transitioning international politics from a Westphalian system characterized by violent competition. Perhaps the best region where one can see the benefits of China’s foreign policy is Africa. This paper will examine to what extent China’s Africa policy can be a model of engagement for other international actors.
Promoting Neighborhood Public Diplomacy: Problems and Solutions
Yao Yao
Neighborhood public diplomacy is of extreme strategic importance: it originates from neighboring countries, is aimed at public opinion and is a matter of long-term interest. The following paper will unpack the concepts and tasks of neighborhood public diplomacy, sum up the problems and challenges in practice and propose ways to promote the next phase of related work.
The Trends of Cross-Straits Relations in a Changing East Asia
Xiu Chunping
With Asia Pacific turning turbulent and lumpy, the situation in Taiwan Straits has also attracted attention. In the time of various strategic powers contending with each other and the situation in East Asia undergoing complex changes, whether the cross-Straits relations will remain in the track of peaceful development and whither it will go have become a new perspective to study the cross-Straits relations.
From Bilateralism to Multilateralism: Evolution and Prospects of ASEAN Defense Cooperation
He Tao
For ASEAN, the changing security context has led to greater multilateral defense cooperation in conjunction with bilateral arrangements through a process of institutional layering. The article pursues a qualitative approach by examining 4 variables that underlie the shift, introduces main approaches taken by ASEAN countries to advance defense cooperation, and further discusses the future outlook and implications of ASEAN defense cooperation.
US-Vietnam Security Cooperation: Development and Prospects
Xin Qiang
Given the increasingly intense Sino-American strategic dynamic in the Asia-Pacific region and Sino-Vietnamese disputes over the South China Sea, the US and Vietnam are gradually promoting a comprehensive cooperative partnership driven by realistic benefits. US-Vietnam security cooperation not only affects the two countries’ strategic military plans, but also exerts considerable influence on the overall geo-strategic environment in the South China Sea region.
Prospecting and Developing South China Sea Oil and Gas Resources
Li Guoqiang
As far as the prevailing situation in the South China Sea is concerned, neighboring claimant countries benefit greatly by China’s difficulties in exploiting oil and gas in the South China Sea. While safeguarding peace and stability and seeking effective ways to resolve sovereignty disputes, policy adjustments should be employed to push forward China’s oil and gas exploitation and development in the South China Sea.
TTIP: The Economic and Strategic Effects
Jiang Yang & Wang Yiwei
The Chinese academia focuses more on the TPP and has not given enough attention to the TTIP. However, the TTIP is actually more exclusive in nature to China. Strategically China should pay more attention to the TTIP and its impacts on China, and engage in serious study on how to deepen trade and investment reform and reactivate multilateral trade negotiations.
